Anonymous Quotes

It is true that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

If you don't have anything different to say, don't say it at all. That's my rule.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

By words the mind is winged.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.