Men Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the…

— Alfred de Vigny

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would…

— Adam Langer

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when…

— Charles Churchill

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow more real,…

— Michael Bailey