Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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"
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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 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
