Mr Hudson Quotes
Life in the wild, as I’m observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.
The promise of adventure is often more exciting than the adventure itself.
To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.
Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.
Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.
In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.
Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.
Michelin Star? I’d rather chew a French rubber tyre.
With God all things are possible, and no conversion ever takes place save by the almighty power of the Holy Ghost. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know God.
Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.
Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.
There comes a time when you just have to say, “No!” – to the requests and to the system.
Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are.
Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.
Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams.
Don’t lose yourself in the fog of normality.
Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.
It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.
The things we place greatest value upon are prioritised by their context in our lives.
Leaps of faith tend to favour those with long legs.
The work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.
Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.
It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.
Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.
Creative people need strong encouragement.
Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.
Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.
The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.
Never interrupt an author when he or she is ‘in the zone’, else you’ll understand the real meaning of ‘writer’s nib’.
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
Editing one’s writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.
If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.
I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.
When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.
Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.
Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.
I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.
I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.
Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.
A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.
What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.
The greatest gifts are those that say, “I know you”.
We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than ‘exist’.