There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — 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
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
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — 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
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — 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
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are… — 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
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — 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
