Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

— Harold Bloom

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

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

“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of…

— Henry Miller

“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

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

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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

“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