After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Writer
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
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
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"
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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
