Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Brain Quotes

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

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In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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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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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

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My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

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