Books Quote by Paul J. Silvia

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

— Tony Hillerman

“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more important to…

— Edith Schaeffer

Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to each other…

— Barry Levinson

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

— Mercedes Lackey

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Leonard Bernstein

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come…

— Sara Sheridan

“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's…

— Leo Tolstoy

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper...”

— William Zinsser

i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then…

— Ernest Hemingway