Quotations
Writer

If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler

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

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

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

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

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell

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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