[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot. . . I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.
Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that. " He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.