The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Writer
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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"
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
