Life Quote by Mike O'Malley

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

— Tanith Lee

I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories,…

— Wright Thompson

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

— Pink

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover…

— Helen Slater

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty.…

— David Guterson