"Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words."

-- P. D. James

#Eye Quotes #Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes

“It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.”
“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”
“Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.”
“I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.”
“I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment.”

Source : Marguerite Porete, Ellen L. Babinsky (1993). “The Mirror of Simple Souls”, p.104, Paulist Press
“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.”
“It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.”
“I love skin care and actually wanted to be an esthetician for many years.”

Source : "It's Official: Awkward's Ashley Rickards Is Freaking Hilarious and She Shared Her Phone Pics to Prove It" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 20, 2012.

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