I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.

I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.

Emma, okay, enough with the singing. Mommy's getting a three-pill headache.

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A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day!

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.