Rachel Carson Quotes about Writing

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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Rachel Carson

Book, Writing, Sea

Rachel Carson (1989). “The Sea Around Us”, p.24, Oxford University Press, USA

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Rachel Carson

Writing, Discipline, Listening

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.

Rachel Carson

Mean, Hard Work, Writing

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”