When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.
I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!
When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.
I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.
Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.
We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.