Illusion Quote by Joyce Maynard

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means…

— Graham Swift

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write.…

— J. D. Salinger

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably…

— Marc Jacobs

Concealing your true self and conforming to others expectations limits your soul.

— Danielle Maylyn

“Spectacles, forced mask of certain personality, self-hatred and life-long traumas, that are hidden behind curated theatrics, which remain unhealed, eventually will swallow your bravado…

— Elena Levon

Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment…

— Marge Piercy

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and…

— Anonymous

There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they…

— Anonymous

There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person…

— Augusten Burroughs

To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual…

— John Cheever

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close…

— Keith Barry