Wittelsbaum Quotes & Sayings

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow. — Flannery O'Connor

Gifts are things we do, but spiritual fruit or graces are things we are — Timothy J. Keller

While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the story features come tumbling out, the revision is the end of the joy ride. We pull on the gloves and sort of poke around inside the body. Is that a tumor? Will that limb need amputation? I nearly second-guessed myself into heart failure while learning to self-edit. — Patricia Hickman

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute. — Nathan Fillion

Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction. — Bell Hooks

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem? — Paul Gauguin

Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all. — Reed Mullin

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. — A.S. Byatt

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field. — Christopher Moore

The near in blood,
The nearer bloody. — William Shakespeare

Your parents are your parents, not you. — Shana Norris

The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. — Rumi

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have. — Orson Welles

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. — John Lukacs