To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Quotations
Writer
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
