Left Quote by J. D. Salinger

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

— J. D. Salinger

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

— Eudora Welty

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an…

— Neil Simon

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

— Ruth Ozeki

“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.”

— J.D. Salinger

I rarely write by myself.

— Rob Halford

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

— James Lipton

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole…

— Aretha Franklin

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

I never write alone.

— Paul Whitehouse