"Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words."

“For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is.”

“I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.”

“Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections.”

Source : Gilbert Morris (1994). “How to write (and sell) a Christian novel: proven and practical advice from a best-selling author”

“I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Apr 13, 2016

“Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.”

“David Beckham is not bigger than the Galaxy.”

“My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.”

“Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.”