Children Quote by Jill Talbot

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

— Stephen Sondheim

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.

— Greg Sestero

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen…

— John Darnielle

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be…

— Jerry Spinelli

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a…

— Rey Mysterio

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

I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to…

— Lizz Winstead

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to…

— Sharon Van Etten

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell