Maupassant

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. — Guy de Maupassant

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The final sentence of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Gertrude Stein

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears". - Gertrude Stein