As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.