Between Quote by Susan Minot

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

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

— Edith Pearlman

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

— Jewel

That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

— Derek Walcott

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

— Joss Whedon

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

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

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

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

— Samuel Johnson

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I…

— Sandra Cisneros