Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

Sometimes integrity is seen as a threat by those who desire control.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Glitch was about as wild and unpredictable as a carrot stick.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.