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

“The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes…

— 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. The…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

“Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.”

— Giando Sigurani

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

— Dean Wesley Smith

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must…

— Kenneth Tynan

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider