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The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.