We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

To achieve what you have not, you must become what you are not. You have to GROW into your goals.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

To determine if you're human. Be silent.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.