J.G. McKenney > J.G.'s Quotes

“Why is it that in moments of profound discovery, we choose a phrase that expresses a religious reverence for manure?”
― J.G. McKenney

“The scribe is a witness. He stands at an open door, observing hidden realms. The muse that leads him to the threshold takes many forms, but its essence is magic. Words hold the door open, and only words can close it.”
― J.G. McKenney, The Blademaster's Call: The Chronicle of Jack Green - Book 1

“We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and English Traits

“Any good librarian knows the reader doesn't choose the book, the book chooses the reader.”
― J.G. McKenney, The Book Knights

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth