A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
Quotations
Writer
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-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
"When She Hollers"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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"
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
