Writing For Yourself Quotes

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book gets out there and more people are reading and responding to it. It really makes the world of the books feel real.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.