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
Quotations
Writer
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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"
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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"
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 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
