“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”
“To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.”
“I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.”
“Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.”