Men Quote by Helen DeWitt

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus…

— C.S. Lewis

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

“Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry,…

— Bonnie Friedman

“He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of…

— Haruki Murakami

“A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and…

— Glen Cook

“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.”

— David Diringer

“A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.”

— Christopher Bram

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your…

— Ann Patchett Truth and Beauty

“There were times when a man must assert his rights to what was properly his, and he had as much right on the street…

— The Gordons