The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
No one suspects the days to be gods.
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Deep meaning lies often in childish play.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.
My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
