Dear Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

“To my fellow authors heed these words with much importance, " It is redundant for a true writer to sell their soul for literary…

— Marcus G Monroe

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real…

— Franz Kafka

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying…

— Dean Koontz

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

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

— Irwin Shaw

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

— Walt Whitman

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will…

— Nikolai Gogol