Joan DeArtemis

“It was now reading the sign that said Privet Drive —no, looking at the sign; cats couldn’t read maps or signs.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).”
― Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form

“Then what is the purpose of a church?” the others kept asking.”
― John A. Buehrens, A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

“The set of outline notes of our poorer sermons, however, will likely reveal that they were shaped by the nature of their substantive content, not by the process of the narrative experience that is anticipated.”
― Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form