Character Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution”

— Jean Paul Sartre

It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and…

— Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

— Roald Dahl

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

— Albert Camus

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

— Joseph Brodsky

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

— Theodor Adorno

What is permissible is not always honorable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges