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"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

"How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come."

"He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain."

"People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs."
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"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."

"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."

"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."

"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."

"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."

"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."

"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."
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