Advantage Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Edith Pearlman

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

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

— Eppu Nuotio

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and…

— Donna Tartt

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you…

— Graham Greene

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

— Ann Voskamp

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

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