"Write while the heat is in you...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
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 hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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“This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.”
“Tis now the twenty-third of march,And this warm sun takes out the starchOf winter's pinafore -Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinksA health to spring, and while it sipsIt faintly smacks a myriad lips.”
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.”
More on Writing
“All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.”
“A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.”
“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”
More on Creativity
“Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.”
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”
“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”