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"I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are."
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"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."
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"I've never cheated on a lover. I'm faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone's feelings. Every time.Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she'd ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she'd given birth to Gwen's grandmother."
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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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"Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation."
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"To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me."
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"The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it is properly manned and every man does his duty, the ship can be safely brought to port."
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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."
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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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"I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged."
Success
"It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had."
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"Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs."
Needs
"I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block."
Writing
"I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years."
Time
"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
Identity
"What sustains me is to be with my family and to write."
Family
"My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area."
Family
"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
Money
"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."
Society
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