Claims Quote by Sarah Manguso

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond…

— Gautama Buddha

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

— Judith Kelman

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

— John Banville

“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…

— Neel Burton

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have…

— Kate Christensen

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

— George D. Prentice

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

— Henrik Ibsen

Ones flaws and ones indecisive moments does not describe nor represent ones inner self*

— Nhlanhla Radebe

When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could…

— Jorja Smith

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson,…

— Lucy Dacus

“Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”

— E.B. White