I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

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.

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

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

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

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.