Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Writing

• All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Kids, Needs

• A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Writing, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

• It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Book, Reading

• Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Writing, Blood

  "Thus Spake Zarathustra".

• one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Writing, Wish

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

• A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.38, Penguin

• 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?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Education

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Greek

• The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Writing, Mouths

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Office

• Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

• Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

• Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Book, Reading

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Two, Knowing

• Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Equipment, Our Thoughts

• I am one thing, my writings are another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, One Thing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Tablets, Harvest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.89, Penguin

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Order

• Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Blood, Spirit

• Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Thinking, Communicate

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Age, Able

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

• Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Heart, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Long

• Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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