Book Quote by James Salter

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

— Emma Healey

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

— Tim Maleeny

I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But, when I'm…

— Crystal Hana Kim

I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as…

— Kevin Keck

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond