When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.

Every text assumes a reader.

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.