Quotations
Writer
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
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
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
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
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
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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