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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

— Tanith Lee

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

— Pink

It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.

— Sam Dew

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

— Helen Slater

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

— Cass McCombs

I am always writing to myself.

— Joan Didion

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

— Finn Wittrock

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

— Hannah Kent

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

— Doris Lessing

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

— Angeles Mastretta

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

— Jerry Spinelli