Walter Benjamin Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Ideas, Delay

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.526, Harvard University Press

• Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Writing, People

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

• Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Musical, Woven

  "One-Way Street and Other Writings".

• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Musical, Woven

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.44, Harvard University Press

• It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Enough Time, Small Villages

• Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

  Walter Benjamin

  Truth, Writing, Self

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.72, Harvard University Press

• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

• Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

  Walter Benjamin

  Running, Inspiration, Writing

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Writing, People

• Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

  Walter Benjamin

  Running, Writing, Ideas

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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