Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
People become trustworthy when they are trusted.
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.