John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..."
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"...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?"
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"... I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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