A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in…

He who writes badly thinks badly

— William Cobbett

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige…

— Samuel Johnson

“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

— Thomas Mann

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear…

— Ernest Hemingway

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture…

— Henry Miller

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

— Samuel Johnson

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

— C. S. Forester

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined…

— Samuel Johnson

“He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.' ”

— Paul Johnson

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson