Books Quote by Robert Cormier

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

— Emma Healey

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers,…

— Angeles Mastretta

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But…

— Amy Bloom

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen…

— John Darnielle

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

— Bonnie McKee

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

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

— John Darnielle

I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.

— PartyNextDoor

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante