Bits Quote by Kevin Keck

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

— Claire Tomalin

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

— Stephen McCauley

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the…

— bell hooks

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would…

— R. A. Salvatore

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

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise…

— Tom Rachman

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken…

— Anthony Holden

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours…

— Michael Longley

I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of 'The Guns…

— H. W. Brands