"The most attractive sentences are not perhaps..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
“The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.”
“Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”
More on Writing
“Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.”
“I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.”
“I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.”