If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.