The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

One thing that drives me nuts... well, let me ask you, when writers write do they not use quotation marks anymore?

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape.

judge not that ye be not judged

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.