Quotations
Writer
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
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 so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
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
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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