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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov

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