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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
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 writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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