I lived in the midst of an affectionate, charming family, and I am sure that there is no greater obstacle to a person who is just beginning to write. —Katharine Butler Hathaway More about this quote Tags: writing family affection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive, or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive, and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom. —Richard Brautigan More about this quote Tags: love emotion promises writers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have spent a good many years . . . being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. —Stephen King More about this quote Tags: talent writing poetry fiction shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have twenty-one pages, unusable, unprintable, destructive of the book as my mind still partly sees it, contradictory of character and inconsistent in tone. But I am undoubtedly started. —Janet Burroway More about this quote Tags: writing art work beginning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Yes, illness and grief were a part of us, indefinitely — but so, too, were love and the ability to listen and learn over time, however long that might be. —Sarah Silbert More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I were God, I would make a world just like this one, where everyone comes raw and naked and dependent into it; where everyone enters bloody between the legs or through the cut belly of a woman; where nothing is for certain and there is so much to learn. I would make the world unfair as this world is unfair, because only in a world like this one is it possible that maybe the rich will take down their fences; maybe the poor will get together and break the fences down; maybe those who know how to read will teach those who don't. Maybe the fed will feed the hungry. Maybe the lion will lie down by the lamb. —Pat Schneider More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again. —Christiane Buuck More about this quote Tags: kindness good anger miracles friendliness thoughtfulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We go on, she told me, because we must. We go on because our life is bigger than the grief. We cry when we need to cry, and get angry when we need to get angry. God will forgive us when we curse him. We go on, she said, until we finally have a day when the pain is not so great. —Rosa R. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This night I am here: in this bruised self, in this bruised world. —Joe Wilkins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Walking my woods, I see every tree, every sprig of jewelweed, every salamander, and, yes, every snake trying to hold on in a paved world, and I'm reminded exactly what hard work survival is. —Dana Wildsmith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I think about the fact that a nation has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose. —Jarvis Jay Masters More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you open yourself to grace working through you, then grace works on you and in you as well. Grace is what has kept me going. —John Records More about this quote Tags: work grace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We're all doing time. The highest compliment in prison is "He knows how to do his own time." How few of us do. —Bo Lozoff More about this quote Tags: time prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I gathered my shoes and wallet on the other side of the metal detector and took a last glance at my father, who was still there, still waving.That mangled finger had always been a symbol of his shortcomings and deformities to me, but now I saw it was also a testament to all that he'd sacrificed for our family.He'd lost that trigger finger building the business that had fed and clothed me. I imagined he was not only waving me goodbye but waving me forward with that symbol of his own woundedness. —Shozan Jack Haubner More about this quote Tags: family sacrifice business fatherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: action world better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email