Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly
Quotations
Writer
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
-Truman Capote
"Truman Capote: Conversations"
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
