If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Quotations
Writer
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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
