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.
The search for God’s presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?
He smiled, thinking that for just an instant, it was easy to imagine they were still married, both of them on the same team, both of them still in love. Except, of course, that they weren’t.
Dramatic fiction – William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it’s harder to break out than ever.