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Talent comes from God, but it only bears fruit through hard work.
Mark Salzman, in his novel Lying Awake |
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Anne Lamott essays
on Salon.com
Judy Alexander writes letter to Anne
Lamott
Novelist Ron Hansen distinguished between what he does as a fiction writer
and what might be termed "Christian fiction" which is in fact
allegory or a form of sermonizing. Instead he described "faith inspired
fiction" writing as a form of praying, a genre in which "authors
can adore God through their alertness to creation and to the Spirit that
dwells in their talent, confess their own faults by faithfully recording
the sins, failings and tendencies of their characters, offer thanksgiving
through the beauty of form, language and thought in their creations."
(see full article
in Center for the Study of Religion and Society Newsletter, Fall, 1997)
For daily inspiration, read Madeleine
LEngle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life by Carole F. Chase
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