...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat.

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.