Companion Quote by Marilynne Robinson

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard,…

— Anne Lamott

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But…

— Amy Bloom

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives…

— Chaim Potok

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the…

— Jane Yolen

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

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer