If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
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.