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"That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program."
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"Love God so much that, when you are entrusted with much, nothing else will be able to control your heart."
"The law of getting results says, never leave the place of your decision without taking specific steps directed toward its fulfillment."
"Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time."
"Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them."
"Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship."
"To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for."
"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
"To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles."
"God is able to really use a person, who puts all that he has got into his work, who works hard, sweating his guts out to the point of complete exhaustion, using the last of his strength."
"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
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"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
"I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into."
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
"It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time."
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