The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
Writer
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
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 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
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
