Quotations
Writer
The writer must be playful and serious at the same time.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
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
Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- 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
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anaïs Nin
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
- Truman Capote
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