Please Quote by Jean M. Auel

I write to please myself.

— Jim Goad

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't…

— Richard Burton

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

— Beatrix Potter

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning…

— Noel Clarke

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

— Kate Morton

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

I just wrote what I wanted to be reading.

— Anna Todd

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

— Iris Chang

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the…

— Shannon Hale

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

— Benjamin Franklin

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

— Laurell K. Hamilton