Wilbert Shopen

“A country preacher could not have looked more full of milk and honey than this formidable writer, whose words had always left long bloody marks wherever they fell.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?”
― Terri Blackstock, True Light

“The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Always craft a story from real life encounters. It is more believable and you are able to tell it with some emotion.”
― Khalid Muhammad, Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office