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
Quotations
Writer
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
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"
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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
