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Walter Benjamin Quotes about Writing

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The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Walter Benjamin
Writing, Ideas, Delay
Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.526, Harvard University Press

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed, an architectural one, where it is constructed, and finally a textile one, where it is woven.

Walter Benjamin
Writing, Musical, Woven
"One-Way Street and Other Writings".

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

Walter Benjamin
Running, Inspiration, Writing
Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

Walter Benjamin
Running, Writing, Ideas
Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.47, Harvard University Press

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Walter Benjamin
Writing, Musical, Woven
Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.44, Harvard University Press

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Walter Benjamin
Book, Reading, Writing
Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin
Book, Writing, People
Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.488, Harvard University Press

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Walter Benjamin
Truth, Writing, Self
Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.72, Harvard University Press

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin
Book, Writing, People

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

Walter Benjamin
Writing, Enough Time, Small Villages

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