Frederick Buechner Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

  Frederick Buechner

  Writing, Needs, Done

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

• ...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Writing, Godly, Way

• I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.

  Frederick Buechner

  Art, Real, Believe

• What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.

  Frederick Buechner

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

• Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

  Frederick Buechner

  Book, Writing, Speak

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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