Quotations
Writer
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- 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
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
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