Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Quotations
Writer
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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"
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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
