Any Quote by Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.

— Frederick Buechner

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

“Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.”

— Amit Kalantri

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

— Havelock Ellis

I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't…

— Sharon Jones

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either…

— Edward Said

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to…

— John Bolton

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom