Liberated Quote by Nicholson Baker

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

— Stephen McCauley

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

— Kate Morton

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison