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
Quotations
Writer
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
