Inspirations

Some of my favorite inspirations for writing and for life.

“… the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”

 William Faulkner
Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
December 10, 1950

“The world will be saved beauty.”

Dostoevsky

“This is a part of our identity as being made in the image of God who loves each of us as if there was only one of us”

on empathy - St. Augustine as reported by Richard Rohr

“My business is circumference.”

Emily Dickinson, title page 

“The imagination only works when the mind is in a state of doubt.”

David Jauss

“One always walks in this valley of the shadow of doubt, doubt that haunts the believer even in the moment of the deepest affirmation of faith.  At the same time, doubt points to the ultimate mystery of God.  The finite cannot contain the infinite after all.  That is the meaning of God’s silence.”  

Fumitaka Matuoka, The Christology of Shusaku Endo

“What aspect of your life are you willing to endanger for the sake of art?”

David Shields. Poets & Writers interview Jan/Feb 2015

“Reading completes the act of literature.”

Joe Milazzo

“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”

Albert Einstein