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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

“Becoming a writer is a lifelong journey. It cannot be learned in a day or even a month or a year. We will never…

— Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart

I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,

— Philip Larkin

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really…

— Sylvester Stallone

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult…

— LouAnne Johnson

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie