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

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.

Sometimes you need to give people something that's for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

A dream without a plan is just a wish

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.