Bridget Carpenter Quotes
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
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If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.
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All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage.
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The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
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When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
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I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.
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I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
