Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
-Alfred Adler
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
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
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"
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
