“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.” WorldWayMoralStepsGonePathTreeRootsDown AndForestsLionsNew WorldPioneersOld Trees Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
“What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!” MenUseActionPathStyleHe ManClothesBirdDown AndDressesBusyCornersBreatheCages Author:Ardyth Kennelly
“Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.” ThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingDoeSchoolFoundPathWalkingEnlightenmentHigh SchoolSittingDown AndAwfulMiserableSeniorMonkThink Of YouFeels RightShortcutsNeurosurgeonsPath To EnlightenmentHigh School Senior Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.” WritingCharacterPathFrontsDown AndAvailableMetaphoricalRoadblockPaved Roads Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.” TryingWholeBigsNamesCompanyPathFiveFourProveResearchDown AndSignificantScalesBunchDozenProve ItFinancing Author:Bill Gates