A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes…

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

The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.

— Henry Mancini

“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

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

— Paul Johnson

“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