Books Quote by Ann Voskamp

“Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and…

— Denise M. Baran-Unland

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book.…

— Jolina Petersheim

“In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those…

— Jill Patton Walsh

“The loss of God is death, is desolation, hunger, separation. All the tragedy of man is in one word, ‘godlessness”

— Anonymous

“Only God can write a story that resonates not just in the power of the imagination or the heart or the mind, but in…

— Jared C. Wilson

“God exacted interest like a loanshark, you paid and kept paying and still He broke all yr bones, one Yom Kippur, at the beginning…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.”

— Lara Biuts

“In this announcement, we are a part of a magnificent story — the story of God redeeming the world. We know this to be…

— Nish Weiseth

“Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner),…

— Daniel Hochhalter

“All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own…

— Bill Delvaux