Forster, E.M. Anonymity: An Inquiry

".. all literature tends towards a condition of anonymity, and that, so far as words are creative, a signature merely distracts us from their true significance. I do not say literature 'ought' not be signed, because literature is alive, and consequently 'ought' is the wrong word to use. It wants not to be signed.. .. It is always tugging in that direction and saying in effect: 'I, not my author, exist really.'

"Literature does not want to remember. It is alive - not in a vague complimentary sense - but alive tenaciously, and it is always covering up the tracks that connect it with the laboratory."

Anonymity: An Inquiry p. 90 What I believe.