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- 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…
- It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
- You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t.
- You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into…
- I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and…
- 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…
- Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our…
- Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people…
- 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…
- I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
- I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets,…
- I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you…
- Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an…
- God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He…
- I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of…
- E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights,…
- If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
- Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form…
- My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just…
- I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means…
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish…
- You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good…
- Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom…
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