The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.