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Pat Schneider is an American writer born in 1934. She is known for her unique writing style and profound insights into social issues.

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“I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.”

Mind Desire Longing Hunger Bait

Book:How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

“The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.”

Self Poetry Change Becoming Poem

Book:Olive Street transfer

Source: Olive Street transfer

“It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they're supposed to be. I've been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes Wait respectfully in closets And soap dries quietly in the dish, And towels drink the wet From the skin of the back. And the lovely repetition of stairs. And what is more generous than a window?”

Love Patience

Book:Another River

Source: Another River

“The panther that has stalked you since you were a child is old now. No longer wild, and tired of guarding the treasure you yourself left behind - blind and deaf, she will give it all to you if you just let her go.”

Writing Age Poetry Letting Go

Book:How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

“Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.”

Connection Manipulation Act Performance Search Self Protection Self Aggrandizement

Book:How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

“If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.”

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“And what is more generous than a window?”

Window Generous

Book:How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

“When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”

Kind Artist Creativity Goes On Busy Surface Mourning Neglect Busy Life

Book:Writing Alone and with Others

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.”

Writing Art I Can Desire Passion Grows Can Do Art Is Increase Depth Crafts

Book:Writing Alone and with Others

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.”

Inspirational Art Increase Painful

Book:Writing Alone and with Others

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“A writer is someone who writes!”

Writing

Author:Pat Schneider

“Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.”

People Writing Art Form Levels Class Economic Educational Economic Class

Book:Writing Alone and with Others

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.”

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

About the Author

Born: 1934
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 13

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