“Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.” Quote by Robert Munsch
“Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.” IfsWantWritingBookReadingBitsGet BetterSwimSwimming Author:Robert Munsch
“Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.” WayGivingTryingStuffCommunityHelpfulPublication Author:Robert Munsch
“I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.” StoriesHappensWaitingAudienceFrontsComic Author:Robert Munsch
“People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.” PeopleBigsKidsFunForgetIssuesCarTrainingAdultsToiletsInterstate Author:Robert Munsch
“If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.” IfsWritingBookRealKidsRememberChildhoodPicksBooks For Kids Author:Robert Munsch
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” SufferingEvilJudgingPhilosophicalJudgedBeing Judged Author:Saint Augustine
“Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.” SpiritualViolenceCrazyIgnoranceIncrediblesContemporaryMaterialismIndulgenceSentimentalityTheismDrive Me Crazy Author:Anne Waldman
“The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds which are coming through the imaginings and visitations in my head, and I'm making these sounds but I've selected them from an ocean of sound.” SoundVoiceOceanInstrumentsMusicalScoreSelectedVisitationArticulating Author:Anne Waldman
“The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for many years to pursue an accommodationist strategy in regards to the culture, and this has resulted in a public presentation of the Faith that is often nebulous or "dumbed down."” YearsHas BeensSeemsCultureChurchMediaDangerRegardStrategyPursueSuperficialPresentationRelishEthosNew Media Author:Robert Barron
“I must admit that many humans have a strong need to perceive life as in some sense benign and potentially happy. It is also evident that this need cannot be met if we do not experience a salvific change in consciousness, which allows us to perceive a greater, happier reality beyond the world of matter and sense.” IfsWorldNeedsHumansMatterRealityStrongConsciousnessGreaterMetsPerceiveEvidentBenign Author:Stephan A. Hoeller