It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

I spend about a year between novels

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.