“The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.”

“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future, in a book. For me, there is no more noble a cause and no more honorable a vocation than to say, like Him, I am a writer.”

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”

“One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another’s works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers rarely say anything positive about each other.”

“On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing. But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.”

“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He calls.”