Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don’t think we mine creativity from within. It’s bestowed from on high, from God. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
I’m not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
Gratitude’s not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I’ve spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
When we can’t bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God’s catching every falling tear because He won’t let us fall apart. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else’s, and you’ve just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
The real romantics are the boring ones – they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
Get this, kids – how a man proposes isn’t what makes him romantic. It’s how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic. Ann Voskamp Read Quote
