Blame Quote by Virginia Woolf

“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that…

— Ron Houston

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

— Harlan Coben

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

— Paulo Coelho

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people…

— Lynda Barry

Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me…

— John Steinbeck

I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days…

— Sandra Cisneros

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

— Salman Rushdie

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

— S. E. Hinton