prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing.