It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
I don’t think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.
The past can’t be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.
We are to make a plan for the day, pray over that plan, and then proceed with that plan. When we are willing to regard the unexpected as God’s intervention, we can flex with the new plan, recognizing it as God’s plan.
When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.
Remember to say what you mean, but don’t say it meanly.
When we don’t understand and don’t agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can’t understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.
As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.
When we hold our thoughts up against God’s standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.
One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can’t be taught. Frankly, I don’t understand this point of view.
The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
God has plans for you and His plans are for good because God Himself is good. He can neither think nor do evil.