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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I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.
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I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.
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I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
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I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.
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Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.
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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.
