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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
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
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
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
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