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When I'm in the middle of a bo...

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

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If I had to write a rough draf...

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.

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There's never any humongous ne...

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

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I love my editor, but that wou...

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

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As an adult I discovered that ...

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

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What popped up more than that ...

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

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There are thousands of protein...

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.

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I just became fascinated with ...

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

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One of the underlying things I...

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

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Another way to be awakened by ...

Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

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I think the world is an intere...

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

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I always enjoyed the kids, but...

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

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I always thought happiness was...

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

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Like children, dogs want disci...

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

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The selfless love that we give...

The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.

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The world is a very complex an...

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

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Dogs are one of those things t...

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

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We never had books in the hous...

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

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You can't always win arguments...

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

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I've had good publishers and b...

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

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