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"
Quotations
Writer
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
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
