After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Writer
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
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
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"
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
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
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
