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
Quotations
Writer
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-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"
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
