Find Quote by Harlan Ellison

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

— Joyce Carol Oates

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

— William Zinsser

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel…

— Lisa Unger

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

— Sadie Jones

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata