Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.