Desert Quote by Alan Lightman

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who…

— Henry Wotton

“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that kind of…

— Nabokov Vladimir

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a…

— Julianna Baggott

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must…

— Kenneth Tynan

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer;…

— Robert Musil

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And…

— Dylan Thomas

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

— Louis Kronenberger

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I…

— Jose Saramago

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help…

— William Faulkner

“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never…

— Leslie Fiedler