A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
Quotations
Writer
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
