Art Quote by Thomas Mann

“I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.”

— Albert Camus

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

“I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our…

— Katie Kiesler

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

— Frederick Douglass

“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by…

— Patrick O'Brian

“People see what they want see and understand what only they can understand. Leave aside the guilt and the blame; no man could think,…

— Mircea Popister

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

“But what a poor lie: no one has any rights; they are entirely free, like other men, they cannot succeed in not feeling superfluous.…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

“...a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.”

— Paul Bowles

“I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.”

— Haruki Murakami