"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."

Vocation, Writing, Calling, Persistence, Creation

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"For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives."

Brennan Manning, American Author

Vocation, Faith, Service, Love, Community

"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Vocation, Writing, Calling, Creativity, Purpose

"When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan."

Carlos Wallace, American Author

Vocation, Purpose, Calling, Faith, Destiny

"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."

Frederick Pollock, English Judge

Vocation,

"No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Vocation, Work, Passion, Deception, Self

"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."

Giovanni Ribisi, American Actor

Vocation,

"If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Vocation, Calling, Expression, Art, Authenticity

"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."

John Irving, American Novelist

Vocation, Writing, Uncertainty, Calling

"Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Vocation, Purpose, Limitation, Dream

"When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Vocation, Work, Identity, Purpose, Creation

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"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."

Success, Work, Failure, Negative

"The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?"

Life, Love, Work, Time

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

Nature, Hell

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

Future,

"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

Revolution, Dream, Power, People

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

God, Mythology

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."

Money, Old

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"For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives."

"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."

"When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan."

"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."

"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."

"If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart."

"You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice."

"When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working."

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"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."

"The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?"

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

"To be free is to have achieved your life."

"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."