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Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of our personality faults. Those of us, for example, who never learned to dance feel that the church is an ideal place for us if we can find a church that doesn't believe in dancing. Then we can get away with never having learned how to dance. You can carry this in all sorts of directions and see that the church is a refuge for what is really a 'flaw' in your own makeup.

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

On her first day at the school her mother had explained to her she was about to enter the devil's lair, filled her satchel with two hundred copies of the Watchtower, and instructed her to go do the Lord's work

God has humorous moments with you, yet they are never at your displeasure. (08/25/2019)

I tell myself that I have no problem believing in God, if “belief” can be defined as some utter interior I sent to in life that is both beyond and within this one, and if “assent” can be understood as at once active and unconscious, and if “God” is in some mysterious way both this action and its object, and if after all these qualifications this sentence still makes any effing sense.

What faith and prayers can't get you through, a sense of humor can.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.