Occupation: Author Birth: October 31, 1932
the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand o….
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write..
...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, ….
What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful..
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize wi….
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it,….
a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by c….
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life..
It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with ….
We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our at….
Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the….
One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what ….
Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom..
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me..
The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in t….
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a….
There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid..
I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how..
That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't belie….
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it,….
Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read toget….