Books Quote by Diogenes Laertius

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Blakiston was an outcast. He was in exile from himself”

— Anthony Horowitz

“There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.”

— Hemingway, Ernest

“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his life. But…

— Steven Pressfield

“Without the author there is nothing.”

— Michael E. Bierman

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did…

— Douglas Adams

“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.”

— Lara Biuts

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“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

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

— Heinrich Heine