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
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
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
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 great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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