Selected thoughts of male writers on aspects of writing, found during 24 years of wide reading, and organized into the categories Art, Ego, Effort, Good Writing, Keeping At It, and Truth. Encouraging ideas for all writers.

From Men on Writing: 

A work of art is the one mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. I think I understand a considerable lot about writing; nevertheless, when I read something good, in fact, a work of art, my senses sail away into a universe of wonder; How did he do it? How is it possible?

Truman Capote
The Dogs Bark

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot