A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
