Anything Quote by Sheila Heti

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

— Emma Healey

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time…

— Ben Fountain

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about…

— Lidija Dimkovska

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

“My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I always try…

— Desmond Morris

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find…

— Larry Gelbart

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante