"Writing a book is an endurance contest, and a war fought against yourself, because writing is beastly hard work which one would just as soon not do. It's also a job, and if you want to get paid, you have to work. Life is cruel that way."

~~by Tom Clancy
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

~~E.L. Doctorow

"God created me to write. I will write no matter what."

~~Madeleine L'Engle

"...agape means "a profound concern for the welfare of another without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process."

"The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast."
"If I could comprehend God completely, God wouldn't be worth bothering about. I'm finite, God is infinite; the finite cannot comprehend the infinite. But we get enough glimpses."

"She had that spontaneous quality of aliveness which illuminates people who have already done a lot of their dying, and I think I am beginning to understand the truth of that."
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

"Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing." - Heather Armstrong

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. " - Thomas Mann