The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Writer
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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"
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
