Creeps Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get…

— Kate Thompson

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and…

— W. H. Auden

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A…

— Raymond Carver

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

— Jane Gardam

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.

— Liam Hemsworth

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

— Robert Cormier