If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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"
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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"
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
