Able Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh…

— Virginia Woolf

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

— A. A. Milne

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

— Albert Einstein

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce

“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at…

— Eudora Welty

“It ain't just about writing on some documents, author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.”

— Toba Beta

“Being an Author who writes and advocates about tough things people go through in life; the Holy Spirit encourages me to encourage all people…

— Stellah Mupanduki

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No…

— Robin Jones Gunn

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón