Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Writer
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
