Karl Kraus Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Skills, Ideas

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Literature, Journalist

• A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Writing, Deadline

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

  Karl Kraus

  Wall, Writing, Progress

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, May

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Writing, Character

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Acting

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

  Karl Kraus

  Reading, Writing, Request

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Numbers, Doe

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Criticism, Critics

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Literature, Aphorism

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

• Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Writing, Erotic

• What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Enough, Historian

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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