All ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Quotes about “Writing”

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”
“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”
“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.”
“A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.”
“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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