“I have a lot of conversations with people who want to start their own thing, and one of my favorite questions to ask is, ‘Is this an itch, or is it burning?’ If it is just an itch, it is not sufficient. It gets to this point of how badly you really want it.”
Understand that you can have in your writing no qualities which you do not honestly entertain in yourself. Understand that you cannot keep out of your writing the indication of evil or shallowness you entertain in yourself[.] If you love to have a servant stand behind your chair at dinner, it will appear in your writing–or if you possess a vile opinion of women, or if you grudge anything, or doubt immortality–these will appear by what you leave unsaid more than by what you say. There is no trick or cunning, no art or recipe, by which you can have in your writing what you do not possess in yourself.
–Walt Whitman, Journal Entry, 1855-56
“There are many things of which the wise might wish to be ignorant.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson #wisdomwednesday
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Wisdom Wednesday: Richard Wright Edition
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. –Richard Wright
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