I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
