I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

he's a story i want to know from page one

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

Try a little tenderness.