Latest Lurlene McDaniel Quotes from Interviews

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• Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Angel, Love Is

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• I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Character, World, Truth Is

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• I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Giving, Population

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• I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Inspired, Wonderful

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• I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Writing, Opportunity, World

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• You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Happy Endings, Knows

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• I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Children, Hands, People

  Source: bookpage.com

• You want to attach emotionally.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Want

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• I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Cancer, Book, Thinking

  Source: bookpage.com

• I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Mines, Honored

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• I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Cancer, Medical, Trauma

  Source: bookpage.com

• I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Source: bookpage.com

• I can be around kids if I need to be.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Kids, Needs, Ifs

  Source: bookpage.com