Writing Quote by Samuel Beckett

“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him…

— Mary Shelley

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind.”

— Laura Elizabeth Woollett

“It is the privilege and the labor of the apprentice of creation to come with his imagination into the unimaginable, and with his speech…

— Wendell Berry

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere becoming, a…

— Jack London

“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of…

— Stephen King

“They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.”

— Herman Melville

“The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.”

— Ian McEwan

“Lord created me at the beginning of his work,                  The first of his acts of long ago.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson