Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

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

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