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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx
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
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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"
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"
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
-Jean Cocteau
