Writing Quote by Paul Johnson

“I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.” Augustine/John Calvin”

— Augustine

“When I read Saint Augustine’s writings, I do not get the impression that he is a man who died more or less 1,600 years…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is…

— Anne Rice

“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.”

— Zin Murphy

“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.”

— Herman Bavinck

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”

— Voltaire

“A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.”

— Christopher Bram

“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

“The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“A writer is a writer when he says he is.”

— Steven Pressfield

“Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred…

— Malcolm Bradbury

“Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned…

— Jorge Luis Borges