The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.