Accord Quote by Adam Weishaupt

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author…

— Cass Canfield

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be…

— Frederick Busch

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

— Raymond Chandler

“No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer”

— Michael Lennick

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

— Richard Flanagan