No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

— John Edensor Littlewood

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody…

— Edward Dahlberg

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and…

— Francis Bacon

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book.…

— Anthony Burgess

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

— Thomas Paine

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

— Anonymous

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole…

— T. S. Eliot

“Man, you should write a book.’ ‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?”

— Stephanie Wood

“No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were…

— George Cannon

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must…

— C. S. Lewis

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

— Lewis Sperry Chafer