Big picture Quote by John Grisham

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says…

— E. L. Doctorow

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did…

— Simon Sinek

I might get recognised occasionally, but in the grand scheme of things no one cares who I am.

— Mike Faist

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality.…

— Varg Vikernes

People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to…

— Diana Ross

I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that…

— Lucas Mann

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

— Dave Attell

I've been recognized every now and then. It's always in computer stores. It's something like brain associations, because I'll be in the grocery store…

— Edward Snowden

Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.

— Debra Dean

I really don't get recognized much. But there was one experience in an airport with two kids, when the little girl said, 'Princess Diaries!'…

— Chris Pine

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad.…

— James Frey