You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

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.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

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.

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

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.