Quotations
Writer

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau

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

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

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

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote

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

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly

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

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

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