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
Quotations
Writer
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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"
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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"
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
