Quotations
Writer
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- 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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
- Jean Cocteau
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
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
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