„Being photographed does not make a man a good writer. It doesn’t make a man anything.“

— Charles Bukowski
„The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist. “
— Anthony Burgess
„I want to be an honest man and a good writer.“
— James Baldwin
„The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.“
— Aristotle
„A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.“
— Confucius
„Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself.“
— Ernest Hemingway