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
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-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"
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
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"
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
