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“Viewing writing as exploration means that you don't have to have it all worked out before you begin. We find just such a sentiment modeled by Augustine. Responding to a criticism of his book on free will, he wrote, 'I endeavor to be one of those who write because they have made some progress, and who, by means of writing, make further progress.' Similarly, the twentieth-century Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor admitted, 'I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.' Simply stated: we may write to learn what we think.”
― Richard Hughes Gibson, Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words

“We’d try to define these terms like honor, integrity, etc. It really forced me to find some kind of substance to these terms that shape our lives. I was forced to look into a mirror, basically, at myself, to give these things real meaning. That changed the way I felt about everything, about others, about myself. I was literally digging into the very root of myself while digging into Shakespeare’s characters.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“I sometimes think ‘just this onceâ€� is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians