Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
