Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Writer
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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
