I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to … - Emily Susan Rapp

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Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth. '' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Emily Susan Rapp

I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.

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The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

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Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a child," that whole thing - I do believe it is qualitatively different.

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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.

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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

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