Doe Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

— Wyndham Lewis

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it…

— Edward Bouverie Pusey

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

— Joseph P. Farrell

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

— Thomas Mann

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him…

— Iain Pears

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson