Aspect Quote by Henri Nouwen

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating…

— Isabel Allende

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The most beautiful things cannot be written, unfortunately. Fortunately. We would have to be able to write with our eyes, with wild eyes, with…

— Hélène Cixous

“No matter where you live or work or go, there are treasures to be found everywhere. We only have to make an effort to…

— Lorenzo Dominguez

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started…

— Henri Nouwen

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

— David Baboulene

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked…

— Michel Faber