Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

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