The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
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
"The History Of Henry Esmond"
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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
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
"When She Hollers"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
