Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Stars Quotes, Writing Quotes

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

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Write as well as you can and finish what you start.

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Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

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Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Writing Quotes , Different Quotes

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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