“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” —Mary Oliver, Upstream
Category: Quotes
21 Favorite Quotes on Writing
Millions of words have been written about writing. The following quotes have kept me at the task. They are presented in no particular order. I’d love for you to add your own in the comments. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway “The…
Bernard of Clairvaux's Four Stages of the Spiritual Life
…as copied from a footnote in Brian McLaren‘s newest book, A New Kind of Christianity. The quote isn’t indicative of the book as a whole, thus it’s inclusion in the footnotes, but it resonated with me, and I thought it appropriate to post: “Bernard of Clairvaux understood what it means to be a friend to…