Quotations
Writer
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
- Ernest Hemingway
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
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
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