"The maker of a sentence launches out..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.”

“In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.”

“I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.”

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”

“Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.”

“So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.”

“If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.”