"We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles."
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"It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction."
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"I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write."
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"I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions."
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"To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made."
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"Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted."
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"But the past is long, and the future is short."
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"Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out."
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"It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention."
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"Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy."
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"Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words."
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"I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life."
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"If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it."
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"Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief."
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"There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life."
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"Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway."
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"I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment."
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"It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty."
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"In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds."
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"My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories."
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