Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Krauswas an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 April 1874
CountryAustria
art writing erotic
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.
wall writing progress
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
reading writing request
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
writing ideas feelings
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
writing literature aphorism
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
time writing deadline
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
writing enough historian
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
reading writing may
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
writing thinking waiting
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.
writing criticism critics
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.
writing numbers poison
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
reading writing acting
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
writing literature journalist
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
life beautiful writing
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.