Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
"When She Hollers"
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
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
