Writer Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This book is intended for calm readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am one thing, my writings are another.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche