A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
Quotations
Writer
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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"
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
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
