Can do Quote by Truman Capote

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over…

— Anna Todd

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot…

— Dani Shapiro

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human…

— Mike O'Malley

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's…

— Hilton Als

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

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

— Emma Healey

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers,…

— Angeles Mastretta