Inspirational Quote by John Glassco

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

— Samuel Johnson

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

— Milan Kundera

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a…

— Charles Bukowski

Man is what he reads.

— Joseph Brodsky

“A story is a letter the author writes to himself”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón