Listens Quote by Frank Herbert

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

— Dario Argento

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!”

— Phil Wohl

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”

— Orna Ross

“A story is a letter the author writes to himself”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are…

— Raymond Chandler

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker