Quotes About Connection

Make your novel's opening sentence beautiful, one that hooks the reader, and have your last sentence refuse to let the reader go.

You are what you read. You write what you are.

No one can live a full life alone & isolated, least of all a writer

Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.

A good novel is an intensely personal rendezvous between reader and writer.

Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.

The interaction between author and reader is the most intimate in the world of art. The reader's imagination shares and completes the writer's.

You know you've been writing from the heart when, in the midst of a story, you ask, 'What would my mother think of this?

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.

Because if civilization is going to last, if it's going to amount to anything more than just a place to watch TV and get cheap snake meat, it will only be because we've learned to do one thing.' 'And what's that?' 'To care for people who mean nothing to us.

A Brief History of the Universe: Billions of days ago, atoms began joining together to form stars and planets. On these planets, cells came together to form plants, animals, and people, and then people started gathering to form civilizations. And do you know why all these atoms, cells, and people came together? Because nothing wants to be alone! The invisible force which controls the universe and sets all things in motion? It's called "loneliness!

My writing is how I maintain.

suffering borne by two is nearly joy.

We hang suspended in His love. When one heart moves the whole web trembles.

He extended his hand, and one by one, everyone put their hands on top of his as a show of unity.

All my actions have their source in my inalienable love of humankind.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time.

like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

Everyone loves to be loved.

I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses. I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness. I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs, enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer. I believed them to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God.

the tangible benefits of prayer are mere by-products of a healthy prayer life.

the mind ceases to be a separate entity, and the intelligence and the body become one.