The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Quotations
Writer
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"
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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 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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
