Quotations
Writer
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
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
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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