Can not Quote by Cyra McFadden

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must…

— Flora Thompson

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your…

— William Ernest Henley

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have…

— William Ernest Henley

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and…

— Kenneth Rexroth

You can't go with the intention of writing something inspirational. You just have to go with the right heart.

— Lights

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general…

— E. B. White

Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.

— Sandra Cisneros

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in…

— Anonymous

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

— Willa Cather