My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

Writers don't need to be given formulas; they need to be shown possibilities.

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that quality with everybody on a regular basis.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it seem to find me?

Love is a light

The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good

God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.