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Post by stormiel on Dec 16, 2012 3:40:08 GMT -5
I was reading "The Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer, and the following made me think about what I would like to do as a writer someday.
"True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time. The messenger of Christ, though he speaks from God, must also, as the Quakers used to say 'speak to the condition' of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not only timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation."
What are some of your favorite quotes, verses or song lyrics that make you think about writing or what you want to accomplish?
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Post by Kessie on Dec 16, 2012 10:06:22 GMT -5
Well, this excellent post about characters with honor just gave me a new grasp on why one of my characters behaves the way she does. killzoneauthors.blogspot.com/2012/12/honor-thy-fiction.html#.UM3iiKzheWsThere's one quote I keep coming back to (and I'll be darned if I can remember who said it). As I'm snooping around the YA genre and lamenting its increasingly filthy state, I keep coming back to, "Let the excellence of your work be your protest." So I throw myself back into edits with a will. The final version has to be excellent.
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Post by Resha Caner on Dec 16, 2012 16:22:33 GMT -5
I don't know if it's a specific quote, but the essay On Fairy-Stories by Tolkien along with From Homer to Harry Potter by Dickerson & O'Hara enhanced my grasp on the value of speculative fiction.
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Post by fluke on Dec 16, 2012 19:24:50 GMT -5
It's a Tozer quote, but not directly related to writing. "True holiness comes when we loathe sin not when we loathe getting caught."
From G. K. Chesterton on the state of how religious freedom now means we don't talk about it, "the act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
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Post by This Baron of Mora on Dec 16, 2012 23:25:20 GMT -5
Here's a few, yes they are weird...
"All things ever imagined are real"
"...my favorite getaway is my mind. It is a piece of space that has no name but where serenity is the prevailing mood. I have always thought the greatest way to escape was to imagine I was somewhere else-in a space created by my imagination and, as yet, unmapped and untrammeled by others." -George J. Demko (interestingly a highly esteemed geographer who wrote one of my favorite books Why in the World: Adventures in Geography)
"One thing, by another."
"All my road before me" -I think it's from Dymer
"The High Tide and the Turn!" -The Ballad of the White Horse by. G.K. Chesterton
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Post by This Baron of Mora on Dec 16, 2012 23:27:06 GMT -5
A short story that makes you think about both: Leaf by Niggle (by. J.R.R. Tolkien, semi-autobiographical)
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Post by This Baron of Mora on Dec 16, 2012 23:30:20 GMT -5
Fluke: That G.K.C. one is good, do you know what work it's from?
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Post by stormiel on Dec 17, 2012 4:40:21 GMT -5
That story about Stigler and Brown was good. Which part of the article related to your character, Kessie?
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Post by fluke on Dec 17, 2012 10:25:00 GMT -5
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Post by Kessie on Dec 17, 2012 21:26:49 GMT -5
Stormiel: The bit about honor, and how keeping to a code of honor is what keeps you human. I have an assassin character who breaks with her brotherhood when she's asked to assassinate a child, and I've been musing on what catalyst would cause her to do that. A code of honor fits the bill nicely.
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Post by stormiel on Dec 18, 2012 7:28:46 GMT -5
I thought that was probably it, but I was curious about the character you were talking about so I thought I would ask.
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