Quotations
Writer

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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