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
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
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 writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
