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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
