Angie Stone

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.

American Musician

Kate Christensen

In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

American Novelist

Mick Foley

In 1999, I had my back against the wall, and WWE had a ghostwriter working on an autobiography for me. He was halfway through, and it was awful, just boring. I took over as a way of trying to fix things, as I thought I could probably do a better job.

American Actor

Conchita Wurst

The whole process of telling my story to my ghostwriter was so intense, after all, because he would ask me questions that no journalist would ask me. Things like, 'How did it smell at your grandmother's house?

Austrian Musician

Michael Robotham

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.

Australian Writer

Bob Kane

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.

American Artist

Bruce Boxleitner

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Molly Ringwald

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

American Actress

Wendy Williams

Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.

American Entertainer

Robert Harris

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

British Novelist

Ghostwriters do not get public credit for their writing; the credit goes to the named author.

Uncredited Work

Ghostwriting is common in celebrity memoirs or busy professionals' publications.

Behind the Scenes

Ghostwriters often sign confidentiality agreements, agreeing not to reveal their role.

Contractual Secrecy

 And she responds, “Not great. Maybe I need a ghostwriter! I already have the ghost!” Remember my mom’s doctor, the one who didn’t get it? That comic about him was part of this same story. It’s a comic my mom and I wrote together