The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
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
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 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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
