Quotes by James Houston

• Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
• Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.
• We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
• Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
• It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.