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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."
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"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."
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"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."
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"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
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"God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full."
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"Your life must not be static, you must keep on moving forward towards the higher goal. No obstacle can stop a man who is committed to a single calling or to a single prize."
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"Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them."
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"Do what you were called to do and guard your calling."
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"The law of getting results says, never leave the place of your decision without taking specific steps directed toward its fulfillment."
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"You will need to invest every bit of your time into your destiny and purpose if you truly desire to be great."
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"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."
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"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."
Time
"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."
Liberty
"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
"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."
Writing
"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
"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
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"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
"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."
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