Approach Quote by Scott Adams

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

— Kate Nash

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so…

— Winona Ryder

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

— Maureen Dowd

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

— Anonymous

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

— George Murray

You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all…

— Samuel Beckett

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

— Aimee Bender

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

— Alejandro Zambra

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

— Zadie Smith

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your…

— Susan Minot

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some…

— George Eliot