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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not...  
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.  
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers....  
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.  
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it wil...  
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is...  
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to wr...  
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.  
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poo...  
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind wi...  
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.  
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that d...  
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good tea...  
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to sav...