Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

In these silences something may rise