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Writing Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
- The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
- When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every…
- As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
- The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time…
- Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
- Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
- There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
- Write while the heat is in you.
- Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
- Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a…
- A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if…
- Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be…
- Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
- I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you. However slow the…
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