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It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation th...more

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I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to wr...more

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Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,Who will keep the world from death?Who will stop the coming night?Blue eyes, blu...more

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We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully an...more

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A book comes and says, 'Write me.

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Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

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Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

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In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things ...more

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Maybe the job of the artist is to see through all of this strangeness to what really is, and that takes a lot of courage and a strong faith in the val...more

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we ...more

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The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel to...more

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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.