Books Quote by Marjorie Holmes

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw…

— Anne Lamott

“For me writing is light, a radiance that captures everything in a fine profile. This light searches and illuminates, it is a safe place…

— Yvonne Vera

“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.”

— Cornelius D. Jones

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to…

— Vaclav Havel

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

“Always let your heart shine bright, because this inner light will guide you home, even in the darkest night.”

— Jennifer Sodini

I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's…

— Janette Turner Hospital

Your eyes lead you through the light but your heart will guide you through the dark..

— Melchor Lim

A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.

— Patricia Lee Gauch

“You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.”

— Kemi Sogunle

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.

— Helen Keller