Quotations
Writer

Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler

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

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

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire

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

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau

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