Literature · Reflection
SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON BEING AN AUTHOR
15 June 2011
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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