Ralph Waldo Emerson on Authors

“The lover of letters loves power too.”

“All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having.”

“For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.”

“The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.”