George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

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. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.