Books Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

— Quintilian

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

— John Wilkins

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

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his…

— Samuel Johnson

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human…

— James K. Morrow

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

— Dan Kennedy

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his…

— Anonymous

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet…

— Eric Hoffer