“Perhaps the single greatest thing I learned from reading the Book of Mormon is that the voice of the Spirit comes as a feeling rather than a sound. You will learn, as I have learned, to “listen” for that voice that is felt rather than heard.”
“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
“I think you can read a dozen different books and not learn a single thing about writing. Good writers don't read, they study books. They pick the plots apart and the sentences apart. And part of studying is copying. Reading is great and every writer should read, but reading alone isn't enough to learn what you need to learn...”