What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.
Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.
Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right i...
I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.
