Men Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks…

— Anonymous

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

He who writes badly thinks badly

— William Cobbett

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer…

— Ben Hecht

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great…

— Joseph Addison

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else and usually its reading his own handwriting.

— G Norman Collie

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham