Appearance Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

— Julian Barnes

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

— Sarah Fielding

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what…

— Leo Rosten

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur