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"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."

"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."

"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock."

"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself."

"There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church."

"As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country."
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"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."

"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."

"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."

"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."

"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
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