Books Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

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

“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

— Nora Roberts

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton