Business Quote by James Gleick

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the…

— Laurie Foos

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?

— Steven Saylor

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

— Jonathan Dee

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are…

— Jo Nesbo

“The self,” Blackmore writes, “is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self,” she…

— Sy Montgomery

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the…

— Jane Yolen

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you…

— Milan Kundera

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…

— Neel Burton

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

— Kanye West

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up…

— Nathan Englander