"The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work."
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"Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long."
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"If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever."
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"The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness."
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"Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive."
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"Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does."
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"Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not."
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"You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented."
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"If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world."
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"The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away."
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"My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself."
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"I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?"
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"So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?""
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"You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason."
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"I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes."
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"I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world."
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"When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual."
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"I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine."
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"She lived in fear of ifonic endings."
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"Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall."
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