Brain Quote by John Updike

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

— Ewan McGregor

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

— Mario Benedetti

“Reading at meal is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of…

— Stephen King

“...I think one shouldn't pussyfoot, and just say that you write the stuff that you would like to read. So you write for yourself,…

— Martin Amis

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

— Samuel Johnson

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't…

— Nicholson Baker

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene