Affectionate Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

— Anonymous

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal;…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or…

— Samuel Johnson

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann

“Vision, emotion, sincerity, passion and creativity. Without these attributes a writer has only his pen with which to speak to his audience”

— Bill Knight English Writer Copywriter Cynic

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

— Dani Shapiro

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of…

— C. S. Lewis

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

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

— John Updike