Even Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I…

— Maeve Binchy

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television…

— Ed Brubaker

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an…

— John Steinbeck

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But, when I'm…

— Crystal Hana Kim

Writing is a little box of interest that I take out once in a while.

— Mukul Dev

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds…

— Christopher Bollen

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

— Paul Theroux