top of page
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
Standard
Customized
More

"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."
Author Name
Personal Development

"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
Commonsense

"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."
School

"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
Creativity

"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
History

"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
Truth

"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."
Science

"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
Writing

"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
Humor

"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
Church

"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
Trust
bottom of page