The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
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