Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Writing Quotes

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

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I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

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Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

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As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

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It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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