Author Quote by Voltaire

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”

— Voltaire

Every man is the author of his own life.

— Paul Auster

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

— Victor Hugo

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book…

— Italo Calvino

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

“The greatest work of fiction by any man”

— Centaur Editions

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“He is our man's-man of literature.”

— Andrew Barger

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein