“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.”
Source: My Life
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“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
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“If you write, you should write about the truth.”
Sebastian Gorka (1970) American politician
The War for America's Soul, ISBN 978-1-62157-940-3
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Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Preface, 2nd edition (22 July 1848)
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Context: I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.