Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Writing
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
- Born: February 22, 1788
- Died: September 21, 1860
- Occupation: Philosopher
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