No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot harder. But it's worth it. And you have to admit, it's an adventure.
Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
There seemed no reason why she shouldn't try writing something in between, but she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up and then squeeze it out again.
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries
You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as...
Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.
People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.
We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.
Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.
nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of music nothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of music nothing is accomplished by playing a piece of music our ears are now in excellent condition.
Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.
The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)
For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.
I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.
