When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

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.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

No life is messier than one in ministry

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.

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