Quotations
Writer
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
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If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
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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
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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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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
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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
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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