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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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"To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles."
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"If I'm asking what kind of 'return' I should be expecting on the sacrifices I'm making, I have in that question revealed the need to 'return' that question to wherever I found it and have the word 'return' edited out of it."
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"God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work."
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"Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will."
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"Never abandon your calling or go outside your purpose."
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"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."
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"Have you ever made a commitment for which you felt conviction or passion at the time in which it was made, yet as time went by, you lost interest, lost passion, got distracted, or found something else which would result in a greater reward? If your commitments have wavered, recommit yourself to fulfill your promises and do the right thing."
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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
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"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."
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"Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time."
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"The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form."
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"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels."
Poetry
"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."
Commitment
"But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless."
Writing
"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."
Work
"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
Expression
"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions."
People
"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."
Collaboration
"When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else."
Writing
"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
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