The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
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 the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
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"
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
