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- I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
- You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see…
- Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures…
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
- They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
- Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
- There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence…
- Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess…
- Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
- Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
- I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published…
- What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a…
- My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
- The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another…
- I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.
- And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the…
- I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And…
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach