Writer Quotes

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get t

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

Food is a great way of communicating.