A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
Quotations
Writer
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
-Nelson Mandela
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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
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"
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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
