Joseph Joubert Quotes about Writing

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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

Writing, Glasses, Vision

"The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

Joseph Joubert

Writing, Twenties, Letters

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Joseph Joubert

Writing, Glasses, Fine Words

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Joseph Joubert

Writing, Use, Fancy

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

Joseph Joubert

Writing, Air, Voice

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

Joseph Joubert

Book, Writing, Ambition

"The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.