...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable....until they lose everything.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.

I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.