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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

Ted Dekker

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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
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Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
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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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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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And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
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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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I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
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God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.
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There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.
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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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