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Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: About Age Always Encouraged Journal Little Me Mother She Time Until Up Very Wanted Well Write Wrote

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I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: Been Christian Church Had Head Heart Knowledge Lot Raised

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I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: Because Bible Center Daily Essential Faith Find Gives God Me My Own Own Personal Projects Question Scriptures Speak Spending Spending Time Start Struggling Study Time Walk Which Work

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Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: Anything Anything Else Days Else Everyone Everyone Else Go However Job Like Want Work Writing

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I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: About Before Characters Dream Often Start Stories Writing

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The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

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Topics: Character Characters Come Every Goal Her His Life Own Planned Sometimes Story Take Will

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That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: Correcting Feel God He Know Me Personal Presence Reasons Speaking Very Way Write I Write

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My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: Allow Become Breathe Character He He Or She Job Live Me Reader Real She

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When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: Better Change Does Jesus Like Lives Love

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I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.

~Francine Rivers

Topics: About Became Bringing Christian Christian Life Faith Had Late Life Lot Questions Regret Start Things Where Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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