I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

The Lord is my rock and my redeemer.

Kindness may be the most difficult of virtues, but when I have encountered it, it has meant everything to me.

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

Rise above principle and do what is right.