The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
