Quotations
Writer

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

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

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

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

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell

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