To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Quotations
Writer
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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
