The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
Quotations
Writer
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
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
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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
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 may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
