Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3…

“The history of philosophy is, to a great extent, that of a certain clash of human temperaments…Of whatever temperament a philosopher is, he tries,…

— William James

“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self,…

— Hermione Lee

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in…

— Gerald Brenan

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture…

— Max Euwe

“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of…

— Babette Deutsch

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

“Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances…

— Jay McInerney

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden…

— Herman Melville

“This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. to him or her, the world…

— Jostein Gaarder