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I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

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So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

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I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

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So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

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Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

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For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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