Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.