Quotations
Writer

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

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

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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