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"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."

"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."

"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."

"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."

"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."

"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."

"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."

"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."

"If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment."

"You must work for grace and favor to work for you."
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"It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life."

"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."

"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."

"Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse."

"Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema."

"In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young."

"In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing."

"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly."
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