Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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"
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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"
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
