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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- 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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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