Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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