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• ‟ When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

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• ‟ The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

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• ‟ Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

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• ‟ I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

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• ‟ Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

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• ‟ There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.

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• ‟ I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

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• ‟ I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.

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