I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How…

You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.

— Mark Fisher

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find…

— Erwin McManus

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and…

— Amy Tan

“every daisy in every field has an identity just as strong as mine.”

— Mara Altman

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“When people have awful ideas about your identity, that's just the way it will stay no matter what you do.”

— Matthew Quick

I feel like there are a lot of people who don't have their own identity. They just want to go with what they think…

— Snow Tha Product

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

— Rostam Batmanglij

“Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.”

— Leonardo Donofrio

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

— Joshua Ferris

When it comes to identity, that was an issue that plagued me for a lot of my life. It's something that I wanted to…

— Cherien Dabis

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for…

— Sue Grafton

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the…

— Jay Lake

It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm…

— Jill Talbot

“Writing is the self escaping into the open." E.B. White”

— Solveig Eggerz