Battle Quote by Ryan Holiday

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

— Laura Hillenbrand

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his…

— Samuel Johnson

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear…

— Saul Bellow

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice…

— Sara Paretsky

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

— Dan Kennedy

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

— Quintilian

The abundance of books is distraction

— Seneca the Younger