Doris Egan quotes:

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are the bad voices. The only guide you can afford to listen to is the obsessive, lovestruck thing inside you that keeps insisting it finds some particular subject utterly fascinating. Do not shame this part of yourself. Take it by the hand and lead it to safety.