Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.
Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create an authentic voice. Somehow voice seems to be the natural manifestation of all the narrative decisions we've made so far. We discover it more than we fabricate it.
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story?. . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility.
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.
When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.
I Never Met A Kentuckian Who Wasn't Either Thinking About Going Home Or Actually Going Home
I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do