Accounts Quote by Francis Bacon

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that…

— Samuel Johnson

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write.…

— J. D. Salinger

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's…

— Haruki Murakami

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

— Van Wyck Brooks