Attempting Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Amado Nervo

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Milan Kundera

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

— Victor Hugo

“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 is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and…

— W. H. Auden

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God:…

— Gustave Flaubert

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

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe