Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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
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"
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
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
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"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
