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

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- 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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