The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.