Everything Quote by Tiffany Haddish

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

Writing is like shouting into the world. So when someone shouts back, it's a really big deal. To have people who read hundreds and…

— Celeste Ng

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a…

— Amy Tan

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!

— Tara Westover

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

— Emma Healey

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of…

— Virginia Woolf

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

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

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling…

— Brandi Carlile

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to…

— Robert Cormier