I could include three dozen quotes from Andrew Peterson’s Adorning the Dark, but these quotes — which I saved from somewhere, although maybe not from that book — stood out to me and I wanted to fold them up and keep them on the shelf for posterity and for encouragement.
Author Dan Allender once said that he writes his books hoping to find just one good sentence.
-Andrew Peterson
The difficulty with writing is writing. You can’t get around it, so it’s best to just get used to it. Then shoot for the moon. -Peterson
-Andrew Peterson
I wanted to write the kind of book I would have wanted to read when I was ten—but also the kind of book I wanted to read right now.
-Andrew Peterson
The last quote reminds me of C.S. Lewis’ famous quote on children’s stories (which I probably also stole from Peterson).
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”