Aphorism Quote by Anatole Broyard

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a…

— Anonymous

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words....

— Robert Breault

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's…

— William C. Brown

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

— Robert Breault

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

— James Geary

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

— Northrop Frye

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

— James Geary

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

— Anatole Broyard

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

— Karl Kraus

An aphorism and its author aren't joined by a dash, but separated by it.

— John Alejandro King

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel