“If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.”
Letter to Julius Campe (March 18, 1840)
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German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic 1797–1856Related quotes
Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Vol. 3, letter 32.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
Carol Shields (1935–2003) American author
“There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104
Context: There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
“The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.”
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) Japanese author
Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet
Letter One (17 February 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
“No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 159
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 5 (1947-1955), as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
