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" The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. "

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" You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. "

" First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. "

" Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. "

" Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. "

" I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. "

" Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. "

" I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. "

" We're frightened of what makes us different. "

" I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. "

" I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. "

Asking Questions

" I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. "

" To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. "

" We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. "

" It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. "

" What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. "

" My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. "

" To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. "

" Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless. "

" People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. "

" When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. "

" You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. "

" Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. "