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"You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next."
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"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."

"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."

"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."

"When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ's safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to trust! We can be too weak to go on because His strength is made perfect in utter brokenness and nail-pierced hands help up. It is safe to trust! We can give thanks in everything because there's a good God leading, working all things into good. It is safe to trust! The million bridges behind us may seem flattened to the earthly eye, but all bridges ultimately hold, fastened by nails. It is safe to trust."

"A drop of faith can create a hailstorm of success."

"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
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"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."

"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."

"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."

"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."

"If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to."

"I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them."
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