Comic book Quote by Kelly Sue DeConnick

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to.…

— Dennis Lehane

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

— Nora Roberts

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

— Jean M. Auel

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

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

— Frederick Seidel

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

— O. Henry

I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got…

— Stan Lee

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

— Anonymous

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Jackie Collins

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are…

— Meg Cabot