All LEO TOLSTOY Quotes about “Writing”

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
“One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.”
“Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.”
“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”
“It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.”
“I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.”
“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”
“If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.”
“The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.”

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