Pages Quote by Gerald Brenan

Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all…

— Donna Jo Napoli

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected…

— Margaret Mahy

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

— Aubrie Sellers

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

— Tara Westover

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

— Roddy Doyle

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often,…

— Anthony Doerr

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster