Amusement Quote by Donald Murray

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into…

— Pico Iyer

Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should…

— Piers Paul Read

“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person. When God…

— M.V. Carey

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.”

— Phyllis Theroux

“When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for which there…

— Heather Sellers

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I…

— William P. Young

“In the multiplicity of writing, everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered; the structure can be followed, 'run' (like the thread of a stocking)…

— Roland Barthes

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn…

— Stanley Hauerwas