Quote by Karl Kraus
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. - Karl

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. – Karl Kraus

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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. – Jules Renard, Journal, 1895 April 10th

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. – Terri Guillemets

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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