To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Quotations
Writer
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 great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
