Quotations
Writer
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
- Karl Marx
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
- Nelson Mandela
She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
- Cynthia Voigt
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Henry David Thoreau
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- Anaïs Nin
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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