A Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Always Audience Fools Large Person Sure Writes

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Arthur Schopenhauer
German - Philosopher
February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.

Owen King

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

Adam Rich

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

Jacob M. Appel

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Shirley Temple

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Pamela Stephenson

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Florence King

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

Anton Chekhov

I've never been very comfortable as an actor looking out into the audience; I always like to keep my focus on the other person. When you start playing out to the audience, it takes me out of it, because people don't do that when you're in life behaving with another person - you don't often look out, around you, in a presentational manner.

Sarah Paulson

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Red Barber

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

Dean Koontz

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.