Writing Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

— Jane Smiley

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a…

— Eckhart Tolle

In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

— Janice Kaplan

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

The love religion is all that is written here.

— Rumi

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama