H. T. Leslie Quotes
My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.
You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.
Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.
I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.
With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.
We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight in spoiling it?
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.
Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday?
It had to be the hardest thing, even if he’d never known it himself – to accept that the ones you loved would find their own way home.
She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.
But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.
She had a weird, fleeting thought that she wanted to eat her sister, like a sorceress in a storybook – gobble her down into her belly, keep her safe.
The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.
Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.
... knowing what not to know was itself indispensable knowledge.
Only those who believe can achieve what others merely dream about. However, without these same dreams we will achieve little. Dream AND believe to ACHIEVE!!!
Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.
Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.
Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.
It was creative, not financial success that thrilled Walt.
No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.
Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.
Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.
Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.
Most importantly, I'd learned how to question and why ("when" had never been an issue: always).