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

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

-Voltaire

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

-Cyril Connolly

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

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

-Truman Capote "Truman Capote: Conversations"

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 a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

-Ernest Hemingway

The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.

-W. Somerset Maugham

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

-Karl Marx

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