Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human : Section Four: From the Soul of Artists and Writers

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The best author. The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.²⁰

20. Schriftsteller (writer) can have a nuance of mechanical, trivial writing, as opposed to the word for a loftier kind of writer, Dichter.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human
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