The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
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
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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"
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
