Elias Canetti

1905–1994 · Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoiris

Topics: learning, creativity

• You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas—better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

  — Elias Canetti

• One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.

  — Elias Canetti

• I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.

  — Elias Canetti