I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.