Man Quote by Jack Hemingway

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made…

— Jonathon Keats

“He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where they must…

— Felix J. Palma

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

— Bryce Courtenay

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that…

— Stephen Greenblatt

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a…

— Anonymous

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in…

— Edward de Bono

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he…

— Marina Warner

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck