Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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
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
