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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

Creative Writing Reading Well

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

Me Year Group Hot Colour Theory

The dream, I think, with any project is it starts with an idea, and then somebody writes it, and the writer hopes that a director comes on and makes this piece of material visual, and both the director and writer hope that they can have actors come in and bring something to it that neither one of them expected, elevating it along the way.

Hope Think Dream Way Project Bring

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

People Think Choose I Can Pretend

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

Song Start Forward Process Problem

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Change Time Complaining Never Reduce

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Work Myself Surroundings About

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Good Heart Myself Soul Mind Reading

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

Book Three Write Through Typewriter

Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.

Someone You Play Far Away Sometimes

I can't play a slave.

Dorothy Dandridge

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.

Christian de Duve

History Organization Political Sweden

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

Clayton M. Christensen

Success Business Happy People Will

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