Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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"
