To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Quotations
Writer
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
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
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
