Quotations
Writer
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
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 so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
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