Art Quote by Stanley Walker

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.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

“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.”

— Richard Castle

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

— Russell Lynes

“He started to do that, started to inform me of everything; the inconsequential, the meaningful; conversations that ended in a cul-de-sac of unanswerable rhetoric.…

— Sarah Winman

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

— H. L. Mencken

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

— Rick Moody

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams