Anonymity Quote by Anonymous

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

— Joss Whedon

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

— Quintilian

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

— Elena Ferrante

Anonymity usually arouses a great interest and curiosity but on the background of extraordinary style of writing mixed with brilliant humour the question about…

— Kotlesya

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

It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot…

— Saul Bellow

It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly expressed views.…

— Justin Cartwright

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams

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