I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.
I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers. He made his policy clear: he was not responsible for their food, their shelte...
Field after field after field, and not an inch of space wasted on something as decorative and meaningless as a tree. You’ve
Maybe it’s working because I’m an author, and maybe it’s working because Karen works like life depends on this bookstore, or because we have a particularly brilliant staff, or because Nashville is a c...
Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock...
This was her moment, the perfect now.
The love between humans is the thing that nails us to this earth.
The great love of his life, after God, lived only in dark vinyl.
The art of writing comes way down the line, as does the art of interpreting Bach. Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art you must master the craft. If you want to wri...
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
Art is not sin. It’s not always good. But it is not a sin.
As if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.
You also have to find him or her at a time in life when you’re able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive. The
Stayed with her, that she would think, even for an instant, of not shooting her father as failing him
Had I listened to no one, or only to the people who liked me, the workshop would have been a waste of time.
But no one was going to shoot a soprano.
Why is it that we understand that playing the cello will require work but we relegate writing to the magic of inspiration?
What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
What a shame it would have been to miss God while waiting for Him.