Quotations
Writer
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
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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
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 writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
- Karl Marx
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
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