A Quote by Helen McCloy

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

Helen McCloy

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Always Author Betrayal Every Himself Line Portrayal Writes

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Helen McCloy
American - Writer
June 6, 1904 - December 1, 1994

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

Nicolas Chamfort

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Terry Pratchett

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

Darin Strauss

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

Abraham Pais

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Charlie Chaplin

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Baron de Montesquieu

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Connie Willis

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

Joseph Brodsky

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.