Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Writing
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
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Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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