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"
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
-Anaïs Nin
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
