Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Quotations
Writer
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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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
"The History Of Henry Esmond"
