Enemy Quote by Ryan North

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

— Peter Greenaway

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies…

— Charles Bukowski

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing is the worst part of being a writer.

— James Atlas

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

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

— Daniel Alarcon

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet…

— Jonathan Franzen

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

— Quintilian