Writing For Yourself Quotes:

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Inspiration And Creativity, Writing Workshop

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

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

- Cyril Connolly

source: New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933

topic: Inspirational, Respect, Writing, Writing For Yourself, Self Empowerment

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

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

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.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

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

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Confidence, Believe, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

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

- e. e. cummings

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

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.

- Harper Lee

topic: Selfish, Writing, People, Writing For Yourself, Audience Of One

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Enough, Willing, Making A Difference In The World, Just Being You, Knowing And Doing

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

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: Dream, Writing, Excellence, Improving Yourself, Writing For Yourself

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

- Avi

topic: Teacher, Writing, Thinking, Writing For Yourself

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

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Writing, Thinking, Audience, Writing For Yourself

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

- Maya Rudolph

source: Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

topic: Writing, People, Facts, Writing For Yourself

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.

- Thomas Lennon

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Book, Writing, Crafts, Writing For Yourself, Indie Films

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.

- Elmore Leonard

topic: Writing, Character, Thinking, Writing For Yourself, Too Much Work

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.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Real, Book, Reading, Writing For Yourself, Really Amazing