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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.65, Penguin

We read often with as much talent as we write.

"The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.22, Macmillan

I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.

Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”