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"Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."
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"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
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"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."
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"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."
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"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."
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"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer."
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"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
Creativity
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
Family
"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love."
Love
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
Truth
"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
Family
"With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me."
Life
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
Ability
"Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again."
Growth
"They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse."
Technology
"Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all."
Faith
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