The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
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"
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
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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"
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
