Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Character Quotes

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

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

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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

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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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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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