IDENTITY

  
The individual writer, these days, tends to be overwhelmed by a feeling of impotence. What is one man, among millions, particularly if he cannot find access to even thousands of readers or viewers?

...We should never let self-doubt, parading as realism, go so far that it betokens sheer lack of self-respect, abnegation of one's identity. Certainly the world will invite you to be no one; but you can decline the invitation.

-- Eric Bentley