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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
-Nelson Mandela
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
