Believe Quote by Mary Oliver

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

— Ann Voskamp

A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed…

— Patrick Modiano

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all…

— David Milch

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have…

— Michael Piller

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre…

— Min Jin Lee

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and…

— Hans Zimmer

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez