Quotations
Writer
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
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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