I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.