J. K. Rowling Quotes

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

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.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

It doesn't cost me anything to write some fun stuff for folks, because I just really enjoy a challenge.

I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

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

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

I write the books to amuse myself.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.