"A book calls for pen, ink, and..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”
“One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.”
“Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.”
More on Writing
“There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.”
“A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.”
“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
More on Books
“There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?”
“I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.”
“Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.”