" Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. …If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy."
" There are no coincidences in the universe. I have heard the crying of your heart. I have seen the searching of your soul. I know how deeply you have desired the Truth. In pain have you called out for it, and in joy. Unendingly have you beseeched Me. Show Myself. Explain Myself. Reveal Myself. I am doing so here, in terms so plain, you cannot misunderstand. In language so common, you cannot get lost in the verbiage. So go ahead now. Ask Me anything. Anything. I will contrive to bring to bring you the answer. The whole universe I will use to do this. So be on the lookout."
-Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue by Neale Donald Walsch