Ann Voskamp Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.”

“If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.”

“Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.”

“Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.”

“I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.”

“My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.”

“The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.”

“I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.”