"There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window."

Source : "Steve Erickson and Zeroville: An Interview with a True American Original". Interview With Jeff VanderMeer, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

Steve Erickson

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“Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.”

Source : Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.20, Harvest House Publishers
“Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed”
“The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.”
“I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever.”

Source : Song: I Lift My Hands, 2010
“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
“To finish first, you must first finish.”
“I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.”
“I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.”

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