Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

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.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.