Asking Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

I write to please myself.

— Jim Goad

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen,…

— F. Sionil José

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

— John Fletcher

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

— Israel Horovitz

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

— Iris Chang

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

— Joseph Williams

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

— Hill Harper

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

— Eartha Kitt

The most important thing you can do is to write for yourself.

— Stephenie Meyer

“When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, 'Who do you want to be today?' ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Any act of writing is an act of empathy: you try to imagine yourself into another person’s mind and skin. I tried to ask…

— Celeste Ng