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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

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 candidly as you are capable.

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.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

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.