Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.