Quotations
Writer
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 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
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- 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
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