Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.

You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.

Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!

It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

God doesn’t work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.