Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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"
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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
