Confidence Quote by Mark Twain

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

“Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.”

— M.F.Moonzajer

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

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

— Terry Tempest Williams

“is an account, in other words, of how a problematic valorization of powerlessness as “good” can easily emerge from the same situation of “withheld…

— Sianne Ngai

“Writing amounts to removing a piece of yourself and exposing it to criticism. The bravery of that action alone deserves to be looked on…

— April Khaito

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person…

— Jean-Paul Sartre