Books Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a…

— William Hazlitt

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks…

— Anonymous

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to…

— Quintilian

“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer…

— Angela Carter

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell