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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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 writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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