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"
Quotations
Writer
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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
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"
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
