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Top 25 Pat Schneider Quotes (2025 Update)

Pat Schneider Quote: “A writer is someone who writes!”

1. “A writer is someone who writes!”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.”

2. “To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “And what is more generous than a window?”

3. “And what is more generous than a window?”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”

4. “When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “In writing, we see, sometimes with fear and trembling, who we have been, who we really are, and we glimpse now and then who we might become.”

5. “In writing, we see, sometimes with fear and trembling, who we have been, who we really are, and we glimpse now and then who we might become.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Putting words onto paper – when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection – is a holy act.”

6. “Putting words onto paper – when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection – is a holy act.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Jesus said, “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.”

7. “Jesus said, “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Writing is an animal that lives in the soul. It must not be whipped into doing tricks. It is not a circus animal. It can be fierce, but it is not malevolent. It can be playful, but it is not without wisdom. Above all, it is wild. A wild animal has to sleep sometimes. This is a time of deep sleep for my writing.”

8. “Writing is an animal that lives in the soul. It must not be whipped into doing tricks. It is not a circus animal. It can be fierce, but it is not malevolent. It can be playful, but it is not without wisdom. Above all, it is wild. A wild animal has to sleep sometimes. This is a time of deep sleep for my writing.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can’t believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.”

9. “Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can’t believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Darkness and light are inextricably bound together.”

10. “Darkness and light are inextricably bound together.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.”

11. “Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without “the light that is within me” becoming dark.”

12. “Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without “the light that is within me” becoming dark.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.”

13. “I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “If I am an artist, I have a vocation. As one drawn to a lover or called to a religious mission, I go to my work – my writing – because it is essential to my happiness.”

14. “If I am an artist, I have a vocation. As one drawn to a lover or called to a religious mission, I go to my work – my writing – because it is essential to my happiness.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.”

15. “She begins, “What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?” and answers, “Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another.” She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.”

16. “Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.”

17. “It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.”5.”

18. “I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.”5.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.”

19. “I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “God’s love is God’s attention.”

20. “God’s love is God’s attention.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.”

21. “To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.”

22. “Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.”

23. “The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Follow, poet, follow right to the bottom of the night. I have no choice but to pursue the deepest truth my life has given me.”

24. “Follow, poet, follow right to the bottom of the night. I have no choice but to pursue the deepest truth my life has given me.”

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Pat Schneider Quote: “Martha Graham, speaking to dancers, could have been speaking to any artist, any writer: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist.”

25. “Martha Graham, speaking to dancers, could have been speaking to any artist, any writer: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist.”

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