The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
The writer is all alone.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
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