A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.