Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lying, Book, Reading

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 65, 1799.

• The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Men, Worry

• Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Intelligent, People

• When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Writing, Sound

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 66, 1799.

• As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 52, 1799.

• To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Knows

• If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Writing, Play

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 1, 1799.

• Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Lays, Written

• Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Lying, Writing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 25, 1799.

• A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Men, Trying

• What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Thinking, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 52, 1799.

• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Liars, Believe

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook E", E 59), (1775 - 1776).

• Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

• There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Sunshine, Weather

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