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Education isn't something your professors make for you. It's something you make for yourself. — Lance Olsen

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

Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind. — Debasish Mridha

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories. — Don Roff

The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on paper until you experience it for yourself. — Jeanette Michelle

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself. — Dianna Agron

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. — Octavia Butler

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself. — Rosemary Daniell

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible. — Yukimi Nagano

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

Have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself. — May Sarton

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them. — Brian Tracy

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself. — Kerry Wilkinson

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people. — James Fitzjames Stephen

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life. — Irwin Shaw

You can't set a clock for yourself. If you do, you are not a writer. — Matthew Weiner

The best person to write for is yourself - and what better place to start than in a journal. — E.L. James

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song - be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it. — Laurence Sterne

Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best. — Robert C. Martin

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. — Melinda Rucker Haynes

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

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. — Paul Stanley

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for. — William Zinsser

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish. — Eliza Green

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. — Gustave Flaubert

People keep asking me ... How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it. — Gina Greenlee

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. — Jesse Stuart

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch — Susan Boles

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world. — Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button. — Dan Alatorre

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] — Cyril Connolly

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

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work. — Stephen King

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer. — Charles Ghigna

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. — Charlotte Eriksson

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way. — Ray Bradbury