Behinds Quote by Plato

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

— Orson Scott Card

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

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

— Samuel Johnson

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business…

— Virginia Woolf

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware…

— Robert Creeley

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine,…

— Laura Z. Hobson

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot