Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
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
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"
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
