Flats Quote by Shannon Hale

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

— Susan Sontag

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to…

— J. D. Salinger

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me,…

— Gertrude Stein

I cannot write in isolation. I write with people around me.

— Ravi Subramanian

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

— Peter Frampton

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself. I don't know if I could…

— Ruth Wilson

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

— Brady Corbet

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

— Finn Wittrock

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

— Finn Wittrock

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

— Gertrude Stein

I've never been able to write for myself. I was doing a lot. I produced The Green, I wrote it - I didn't see…

— Paul Marcarelli