Another man Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still…

— Storm Jameson

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along…

— Paul Auster

And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in…

— Soren Kierkegaard