Books Quote by Joan Didion

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

— Ruskin Bond

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

— Mark Twain

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

— Kate Morton

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

— Malachy McCourt

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

— N. K. Jemisin

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

— Emma Healey

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.

— Tony Kushner

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

— Nora Roberts

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