Quotations
Writer
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
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 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 the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
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