Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.12, Publishdrive

• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

• For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Opposites, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.18, 谷月社

• One should use common words to say uncommon things

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Use, Common

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.30, Full Moon Publications

• To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

• No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Sake, Subjects

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

• The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Interesting, Novelists

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1904). “The Art of Literature (illustrated)”, p.50, Full Moon Publications

• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Plato, Writing, Development

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.417, Courier Corporation

• Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Writing, Expression

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cheating, Writing, Two

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社

• The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Style, Firsts

• He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Doe, Importance

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.21, 谷月社

• The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Writing, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.22, 谷月社

• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Two, Firsts

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

• A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Should, Clear

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.20, 谷月社

• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Two, Sake

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

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