Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.