I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.