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"I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back."
"I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven."
"I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it."
"I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me."
"I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work."
"My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor."
"I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom."