Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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"
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
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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
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
