Quotes by Writing Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. Arthur Quiller-Couch craftspieceswriting You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books. Arthur Ransome writingbookchildren I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? Arthur Schnitzler love-and-deathsubjectswriting It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. Arthur Schnitzler easywritingmemories The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Arthur Schopenhauer humorwritingfunny One should use common words to say uncommon things Arthur Schopenhauer usecommonwriting Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes. Arthur Schopenhauer expressionwritingbeautiful I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. Arthur Schopenhauer developmentplatowriting To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. Arthur Schopenhauer geniuswritingmen No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. Arthur Schopenhauer subjectssakewriting The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. Arthur Schopenhauer novelistswritinginteresting For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer oppositeswritinggiving A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. Arthur Schopenhauer clearshouldwriting He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. Arthur Schopenhauer importancedoewriting There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. Arthur Schopenhauer writingtwocheating The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. Arthur Schopenhauer honestywritinglittles The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough. Arthur Schopenhauer stylewritingfirsts There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to Arthur Schopenhauer writingtwofirsts There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. Arthur Schopenhauer sakewritingtwo If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. Arthur Smith elderlylive-lifewriting«109110111112113114115116117118119»
