Infinite Quote by Walt Whitman

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very…

— Leo Tolstoy

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“There is only so much revealing one can do. For every self-revelation, there has to be a self-concealment. A life-long commitment to writing involves…

— Susan Sontag

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with…

— Humphrey Bogart

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

— Samuel Johnson

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway