Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Writing Quotes

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

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Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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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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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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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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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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