Quotations
Writer

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
- Tom Bissell

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- Karl Marx

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 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

If the truth is there, bad writing won’t hurt it!
- Alfred Adler

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