Books Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

— Joan Didion

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

— Michael Scott

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

— Ruskin Bond

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

I love writing and I just sit at my keyboard and write.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

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 want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

— Catherine the Great

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

— Alice Walker