Great Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

“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

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

— Clifton Fadiman

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“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

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts…

— Theodor Haecker

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco