C.F. Joyce Quotes

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

Let my country die for me.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.