Bertolt Brecht Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Lying, Writing

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Galileo”, p.133, Grove Press

• I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Clothes, Feelings

• Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Writing, Thinking

• Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taken, Writing, Reality

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

• Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

  Bertolt Brecht

  Dog, Morning, Book

• You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Tree, Woods

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