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
Quotations
Writer
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 great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
