Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing that your ministry is how much of a tip you leave when you eat in a restaurant; when you leave a hotel room whether you leave it all messed up or not; wh...

Rich Mullins

I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when I'm not telling stories have always been pretty three-dimensional. I used to say that the only strong attraction reality ever h...

Robin McKinley

There are different kinds of judgment-making. Naturally, when we meet people, we form judgments based upon how we were taught to see the world and other people (how we were raised, what we've experienced and etc.) The first kind of judgment-making is...

C. JoyBell C.

It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of thi...

C. JoyBell C.

Katharine Clifton: My darling. I'm waiting for you. How long is the day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone, and I'm horribly cold. I really should drag myself outside but then there'd be the sun. I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings, n...

The English Patient

THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVAL Sunday, August 10th at 2:00 PST Dachau Liberator, medical whistle-blower, award winning writer, college professor and world renowned garlic farmer, Chester Aaron, talks about the hard choices he’s had to make, why he made...

Love

I sat at my desk, poured myself a glass of wine, and pondered life...my profession...was it meaningless? I took a long, drawn-back swig of the bourbon and slammed down the glass. I only then noticed the stream of filtered light illuminating through t...

Willy Dingell

All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages.

Closed Doors

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

Celebration of Discipline

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.

The Coldest Winter Ever

When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.

Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula

To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!

Cross Your Heart

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

Chronic Passions

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

On Christian Hot Topics

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

You are a story worthy of being told, A person made to be loved, With a life meant to be lived.

From the Cafe and Beyond: A Collection of Poems and Other Writings

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

The Day I Became an Autodidact

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

David Copperfield:

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Darkness Left Undone