Quotations
Writer

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

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

The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly

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

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- 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

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