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181 " The rather difficult antagonists towards the Church consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack an understanding of the Spirit. "
― Criss Jami , Healology
182 " A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin
183 " A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. "
― Edgar Allan Poe
184 " A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law. "
― H.P. Lovecraft
185 " The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. "
― Madeleine L'Engle , Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
186 " Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. "
― Derek Raymond , He Died With His Eyes Open
187 " If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace. "
― Katherine Anne Porter
188 " All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.. "
― Janet Frame , An Angel at my Table (Autobiography, #1-3)