For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice

Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!

If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

I can figure out which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.