Compelled Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

— PartyNextDoor

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

— Emma Healey

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier

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

— Kate Morton

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

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

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

— Zoe Kazan

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

— Brady Corbet

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich