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
Quotations
Writer
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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
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
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
