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" At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. "
Religious
Noble
Time
" Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. "
Try
Write
Writing
" Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery. "
Everyone
Some
Power
" I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.' "
Game
Risk
Playing
" I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence. "
Choice
Others
Love Is
" I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives. "
Live
Reach
Bless
" I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us. "
Find
Different
Myself
" I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around. "
Sitting
Go
Just
" I have Tourettes syndrome. "
Syndrome
" I'm a humble guy, okay? "
Humble
Guy
Okay
" I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out. "
Writing
Me
Live
" Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages. "
Me
Life
Just
" My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing. "
Healing
Gift
Christian
" People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for. "
Looking
People
Sometimes
" Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. "
Us
Sacrifice
Children
" So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. "
Literature
Young
Dark
" The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with. "
Concept
Spiritual
Something
" The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. "
President
Romantic
Same
" The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers. "
Intelligent
Well
Speak
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