Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Writer
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
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
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
-Ernest Hemingway
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
-W. Somerset Maugham
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
-Tom Bissell
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"
