"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."

Life, Opportunity, Fiction, Limits

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"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

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"Hate is hostility."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."

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"I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing."

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"When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened."

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"I love the most the students with troubled lives."

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"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."

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"I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned."

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"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."

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"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."

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"The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves."

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