"Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits."

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Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

Joy Williams

#Prayer Quotes #Writing Quotes #Silence Quotes

“It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.”
“I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.”
“At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.”
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”

Source : Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage
“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but â€žtil then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation
“For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.”
“I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!”

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