Firsts Quote by Roxane Gay

I ultimately write for myself and the people I love.

— Hisham Matar

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

— Brady Corbet

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

— N. K. Jemisin

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share…

— Daphne Oz

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 rarely write by myself.

— Rob Halford

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

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I…

— David Crosby

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively…

— Colin Hay