Books Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ...…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

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

— Navnath Godse

“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.”

— Anthony Marais

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

“You don't spill your lies on the pages that I write on.”

— Laura Gentile

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Anyone can write something when asked. However, a true writer writes faithfully without question.”

— S.R. Dixon