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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.
When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
I don't know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I'm done with them, they're going to have to find their own way.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!
people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell
Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.
Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.