"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."

Hope, Being, Disappointments

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"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."

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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."

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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."

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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."

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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."

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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."

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"Vision is success in the future."

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"History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way."

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"We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other."

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"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."

Literature

"I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair."

Hair

"I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes."

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"Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that."

Music

"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't."

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"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."

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"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits."

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"I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now."

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"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."

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"I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality."

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