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• That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.

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  Son, Talking, Dying

  Ted Dekker, Bill Bright (2014). “The Caleb Collection: Blessed Child and A Man Called Blessed”, p.156, Harper Collins

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• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

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  Writing, Character, Challenges

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

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  Writing, Thinking, Our World

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• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

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  Voice, Leader, Risk

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• My idea for BoneMan's Daughters came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

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  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.

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  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• Wage war on death. Live for love.

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  War

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• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

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  Light, Darkness, Way

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• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

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  Dark, Light, Evil

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• I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Desire

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• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

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  Spiritual, Strong, Writing

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

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  Sound, Tongue, Enjoy

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

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  Impulse, Practicals, Replaced

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• It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

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  Skins, World, Found

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• Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!

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  Dear

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• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

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  Real, What Matters, Two

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• The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Destroyed

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• If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

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  Would Be, Plot, Kevin

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.287, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

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  Journey, Light, Darkness

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• Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

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  Writing, Issues, Status Quo

  Ted Dekker (2005). “The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

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  Baby, Black And White, Circles

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

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  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

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  Pain, Crazy, Teenager

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• Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

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  Essence, Unnatural

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.634, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

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  Men, Evil, Doe

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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