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"
Quotations
Writer
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
-Anaïs Nin
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
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 the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
