Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very…

— Leo Tolstoy

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being…

— Charles Horton Cooley

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an…

— Francis Bacon

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

— John D. Voelker

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to…

— Candice Millard

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the…

— William Morris

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

— Anonymous

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

— William Faulkner

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

— Samuel Johnson

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural,…

— Charlotte Brontë