A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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More Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
More on Writing
Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.
I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.