Pat Schneider Quotes

• Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers.

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  Art   Communication   Healing  

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• A writer is someone who writes!

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  Writing  

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• To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

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  Art   Passion   Writing  

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

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• When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

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  Creativity   Artist   Mourning  

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

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  Art   Educational   Writing  

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.206, Oxford University Press

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• Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

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  Inspirational   Art   Painful  

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And what is more generous than a window?

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  Window   Generous  

  Pat Schneider (2013). “How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice”, p.233, Oxford University Press

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

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  Character   Hair   Car  

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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