Words of Others

“Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.”

– Carl Sagan

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

– Robert Frost

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

– Anton Chekhov

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

– Thomas Jefferson

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

– Tom Clancy

“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

– Mother Teresa

“We do not need magic to change the world; we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”

– J.K. Rowling

“Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.”

– Allegra Goodman

“By God’s design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by story. It’s how we learn. It’s how we make sense of the world.”

– Liz Curtis Higgs