Compromise Quote by Lynne Tillman

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

— Bonnie McKee

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone…

— Edwidge Danticat

I'm more cautious about what I write.

— Susan Sontag

There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for…

— Nathan Englander

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to…

— Jasper Fforde

I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things all out.

— Bishop Briggs

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

— Anne Rice

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

— Anne Stuart

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

— Sinead O'Connor

The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above…

— James Joyce

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck