Quote by Kirsty Gunn

Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to pare his…

— Catherine Brady

A theme can be a little melody, it can be a couple of notes. It can underscore and add subtext.

— Bear McCreary

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

— John Lennon

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

— Eugene Ormandy

“Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust on God.”

— Andy Crouch

Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that…

— Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling…

— C. S. Lewis

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and…

— Baldassare Castiglione

Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling...

— C. S. Lewis

“Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of…

— Dallas Willard

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is…

— Anne Lamott

This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.

— Deena Metzger