Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

Everyone fights an American war.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire.