Quotations
Writer

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

-Truman Capote "Truman Capote: Conversations"

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"

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

-Anaïs Nin

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

-Tom Bissell

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

-Jean Cocteau

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

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

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

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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