“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint - the same lacquer he uses upon your lips...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...” — John Geddes Copy Share
“...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...” — John Geddes Copy Share
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you… — John Geddes Copy Share
“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...” — John Geddes Copy Share
