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"
Quotations
Writer
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
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
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 may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
