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Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.
In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.
You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial.
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.
You need to get really clear about whether this is your inner voice or just a desire that you have.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.
The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.
From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.
It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.
There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.
I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.
Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
Jesus did not have human blood: He was born of the virgin Mary with the divine blood of His Father.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.