 You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. |
| You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. |
| We're frightened of what makes us different. |
| I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. |
| I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. |
| We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. |
| What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. |
| The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. |
| My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. |
| I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out. |
| I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. |
| I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. |
| I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them. |
| I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. |
