After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Writer
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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
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
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
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
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
