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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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 may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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 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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
