Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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
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"
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"
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
