Quotations
Writer
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
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
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
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
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 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
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