"Surely the writer is to address a..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.”
“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
“Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.”
More on Writing
“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.”
“To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.”
“Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?”
More on Work
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.”
“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.”
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”