When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well. ~ Marjorie Holmes

The writer is a priest called to administer the sacrament of words. ~ Bruce Lockerbie

Suffering has always been intimately linked with creativity. Limitations force us to yield, to abandon ourselves to our Creator God. And when we do, His creativity flows! ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure—just a big field to wander in. ~ Natalie Goldberg

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ~ C. S. Lewis

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor. ~ Victor Hugo

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ~ Arnold Bennett

The beautiful is as useful as the useful, perhaps more so. ~ Victor Hugo