Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Writer
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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
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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
