Identity Quote by Laura van den Berg

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me,…

— Julia Glass

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

— Paula Cole

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means…

— Graham Swift