… what all writers realize: writing is as hard as making clouds and the sky is already filled.
— Dave Newman,
Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children
Tag: on books and writing
Quote of the Day, Arthur Schopenhauer
Obscurity and vagueness of expression is always and everywhere a very bad sign: for in 99 cases out of 100, it derives from vagueness of thought, which in turn comes from an original incongruity in the thought itself, and thus from its falsity.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Books and Writing”
from Essays and Aphorisms