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"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
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"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."
"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds."
"I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone."
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."
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"It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world and ourselves are the product of a cosmic accident. It makes a great difference to his novel whether he believes that we are created in God's image, or whether he believes we create God in our own. It makes a great difference whether he believes that our wills are free, or bound like those of the other animals."
"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
"He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence."
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