If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Quotations
Writer
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
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"
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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 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
