Emma Healey Quotes

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

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.

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

Everything starts with writing.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

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

I really write for people.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

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.

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

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

You don't write a book to show off.

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.

When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what you produced. But it also felt like you had a limited ability to shape the audience, or to acquire an audience, for what you were doing. So you didn't really think too much about that.

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to do it.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.