Authorship Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley”

— Nicholas Murray

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

— Luc de Clapiers

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank

“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies not in…

— Philip Roth

The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has…

— Philip Roth

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb