Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Writer
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
-Karl Marx
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
-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
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
