“You are writing for yourself.”

“You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie book Half of a Yellow Sun

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”

Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books

“The idea that you write to express yourself seems to me revolting. The idea that you write to glorify or to make glorious the art of expressiveness seems to me spot on.”

Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor

“You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time