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"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."
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"As we plant in tears, we shall harvest with joy."
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"As long as we have life, we keep love and hope alive."
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"I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed."
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"Just hope. Hope is filled with power."
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"There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!"
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"Dreaming is good, but without taking actions, a dream is just hope."
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"Hope is the thread between life and death,As long as hope is alive we take breath."
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"Christ's second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ's promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth."
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"We shall not fail. The dream will be fulfilled."
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"Thy word O Lord is my hope."
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"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
Books
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
People
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
American
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
Fiction
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
Imagination
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
Family
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
Chance
"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
Family
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
Horror
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