Matt Haig Quotes

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I really write for people.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I don't believe in writing for goals, or else I'd write essays.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

You don't write a book to show off.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

I just wrote what I wanted to be reading.