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
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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"
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"
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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