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"I've always felt a vague sense of guilt that I search for plunder and inspiration in every book or poem or story I pick up. Other people's books are treasures when stories emerge in molten ingots that a writer can shape to fit his or her own talents. Magical theft has always played an important part of my own writer's imagination."
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"When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved."
"Be a source of motivation wherever you are as a believer."
"You can be all that you wish to be. The power is in your own hands."
"Keep moving forward in the power of thy might."
"You are capable beyond measure."
"Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation."
"Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!"
"All dreams are possible, if we work and wait for the manifest."
"Someday", you said you'd do it yesterday; Yesterday, you said you'll do it today. Today, if you push it to tomorrow, it's likely tomorrow, you'll shift it to "Someday"! Do it now!"
"Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment."
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"Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited the dark minerals of its rhythms on the shelves of my spoken language. You may find the harmonics of the Common of the Mass in every book I've ever written. Because I was raised Roman Catholic, I never feared taking any unchaperoned walks through the fields of language. Words lifted me up and filled me with pleasure."
"The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself."
"She had a grocer's faith in books, they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts."
"The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl."
"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."
"Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny."
"I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta."
"Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling."
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