Quotations
Writer
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
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