Behinds Quote by Maya Angelou

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers…

— Jonathan Santlofer

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories,…

— Dorothy Allison

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and read as…

— Greil Marcus

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

— Peter Schjeldahl

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love…

— Fran Lebowitz

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my…

— Taslima Nasrin

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

— Ashwin Sanghi

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they…

— Ashton Kutcher