You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.
I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.
That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I’ve chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
I wanted to write a story that was different than what I’ve done before – so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction – which, given the considerable turmoil in my character’s lives, is probably a good thing!
I don’t get involved in casting, budgets, location or promotion. Just the script. And, of course, the promotional tour. Which is fine with me – I’m a novelist.
When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.
I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion – give me a little fire, be strong, don’t be wishy-washy, do the right thing.
Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...
A joy as intense as pain.
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that’s true of everybody’s lives, whether or not they want to believe it.
Gifts of the heart can’t be claimed by anyone except the giver.
Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.
The movies are fun, but I’m a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.
I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.
You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I’d dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.
In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.
Now, she could’t help but think he was just a big version of a jealous boy friend.