Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.