Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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I wouldn’t be able to write a song like “Someone Like You” and get someone else to sing it because it’s so personal. It’s like giving away your heart.

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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.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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You never get over the fear of writing.

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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

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All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

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I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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