Quotations
Writer
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
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler
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