Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester
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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st
Theres so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian – all of them. I know that when Im eating that Im not hurting the planet, Im not hurting other people on this planet, Im not hurting animals… and Im not hurting nature. – Maggie Q
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” Essays, 1841
