Quotations
Writer

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

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

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell

If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler

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

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire

Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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