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

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

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.