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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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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."
"Be faithful anywhere you find yourself."
"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."
"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."
"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."
"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."
"God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full."
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"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
"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 for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
"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."
"You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels."
"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."
"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."
"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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