If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Quotations
Writer
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
"The History Of Henry Esmond"
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
