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I was interviewed on An Engaging Faith on Breadbox Media. The wonderful host, Elizabeth Reardon, and I talked about my book Tackling Tough Topics with Faith and Fiction (a faith-based resource for caring adults who want to encourage young teens to live their faith when facing moral challenges) as well as a variety of other subjects! You can listen to the podcast of the interview here. Tune into An Engaging Faith at 4:00 EST weekdays here. And check out the other great programs on Breadbox Media here.
Saint John Bosco said: The music of the young should be listened to with the heart and not with the ears.
For more wisdom from the saints, check out my Facebook page, Saints Said It!
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. Mark Twain
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. Richard Peck
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories John Irving
I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. Mark Twain
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it. J.D. Salinger
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. Zora Neale Hurston
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for. Mark Twain
All except the shallowest living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. Msgr. John Sullivan
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture -- which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. Rose Tremain
What a writer must enjoy, or at least tolerate, is the utterly solitary nature of the work. Lawrence Block
Writers should be read but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne DuMaurier
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway
Thanks to my first grade teacher, Sister Celeste, and her dramatic stories about holy people, I developed an early fascination with the saints. Once I could read well enough, I devoured every saint book in our school library and dreamed of growing up to be a martyr. Over the years, I looked to the saints for inspiration and turned to them for help.
I still do.
But sometimes I find myself wishing for new saints…special saints…saints who fit the life I'm living right now and the problems I wrestle with every day. I recently wrote about these saints-that-don't-exist-but-really-should on the Catholic365 site. If you missed it, you can still read about Saint Peter the Podiatrist, Saint Kitkat Goodbar of Hershey, St. Tardia the Venerable Procrastinator, and all my other imaginary saints here.
Magnetic poetry can be fun! Read and share at Fridgerix!
