Quotes about Writing

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The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor.