Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners….

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the go….

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day..

You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If ….

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role..

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *shou….

Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hur….

I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everythi….

vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists t….

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you ….

Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as in….

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thin….

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudi….

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it..

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing ….

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Becaus….

If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do….

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say..

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here..