Put your characters where they are the most interesting.
It's not just about creativity. It's about the person you're becoming while you're creating.
The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.
If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.
True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.