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“Just start writing. Much experience is not needed to write and you don't need to have read hundreds of books. Mind you, reading is quite an important part of writing; into the stories, the writer must be immersed in. Read lovely stories and learn to write those vivid descriptions. You simply need a pen, some paper or even typewriters and computers, and a wild imagination to write. The writer is not obliged to have an entire story ready, for a simple idea can form into a magical and endearing story. Let go of the fear and doubt, which is the enemy to creative writing. Live the stories as you write them and plunge yourself into those words and worlds. There is nothing to lose in writing a story or even sending it to someone. Writing is a gift and an art in itself. Write with love and passion and dump all your thoughts even if they seem to be trash because they will soon be such beauty.”

“Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any way. They are, in fact, already magical and miraculous. They are the revelation of the Absolute. The mountains, for instance, are already miracles. We don’t need a little angel on top of the mountain to make it more miraculous, so don’t make one up.”

“Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.”

“Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.”

“Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her. "I should do.”