Bertolt Brecht Quotes about Writing

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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

Bertolt Brecht

Running, Lying, Writing

Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Galileo”, p.133, Grove Press

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

War, Writing, Thinking

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Bertolt Brecht

Writing, Tree, Woods

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Bertolt Brecht

Taken, Writing, Reality

Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”