Quotations
Writer

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
- Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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