Doe Quote by Francois Mauriac

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps…

— Charles R. Jackson

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point,…

— George Saunders

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the…

— Alexander Chee

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

— Abraham Lincoln

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

— Alexander Smith

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

— Blaise Pascal

“They say I'm half a man. What does that make the lot of you?”

— George R.R. Martin

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A [real] man does not flee from truth”

— Rudolfo Anaya

A man does not know how far he can go, until he have no choice but to keep moving.

— Blaze Olamiday

“A man who does not read miss great wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita