Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

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

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.