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When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

You know I'm always in trouble.

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.