"The first rule for a good style..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.”

“A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.”

“Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.”

“I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.”

“If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.”

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”

“It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.”

“A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.”