Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Frank Moore Colby

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer…

— Irving Stone

“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

— Benjamin Jowett

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

— Joseph Addison

“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is…

— Uma Nnenna