Quotations
Writer
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
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