Kathleen Rodgers > Kathleen's Quotes

“For some the truth is too painful to hear. For others, it’s a healing balm. This is why I write - to heal.”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers

“A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where all the good stories are swimming around waiting to be rescued from the soul.”
Kathleen M. Rodgers ~ 1998”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers

“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“When we elevate others, we elevate ourselves. Let’s all go be “elevators.”
KMR”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers, Johnnie Come Lately

“To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger.”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers

“To all you writers, artists, musicians, creative types who want to give up: It's okay to walk away for a bit. Get your second wind. But your writing, art, music will be there, lurking over your shoulder, and it will call to you, and you will answer. And come back even stronger.”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers, Johnnie Come Lately

“In the background she would wait chasing away twinges for her fighter pilot’s fate.”
― Kathleen M. Rodgers, The Final Salute

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“O Divine Master, grant that
I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
Not so much to be understood as
To understand; not so much to be
Loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned”
― Saint Francis of Assisi