Joseph Joubert Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

• Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Use, Fancy

• Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Twenties, Letters

• Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Glasses, Vision

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

• Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Glasses, Fine Words

• Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Writing, Ambition

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

• Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Fine Words, Fine

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

• The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Air, Voice

• A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Needs, Natural

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