Hermann Hesse Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Writing, Humanity

• Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Stupid, Writing

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.109, Om Books International

• Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

  Hermann Hesse

  Writing, Blue, Black

• Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Truth, Father

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

• Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Children, Writing

  Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin (2002). “Siddhartha: A New Translation”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

• "For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Mean, Writing

• Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.30, Macmillan

• Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Writing, Literature, Growing

• If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.

  Hermann Hesse

  Writing, Feet, Skirts

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