Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Quotations
Writer
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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
