Quotes About Author

She tells me of her journey, of the train from London—when she says the word, London, she seems conscious of the sound; I suppose she is not in the habit of naming it, of considering it a place of destination or desire.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. —HEBREWS 12:2

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

His tendency to casually drop into the conversation, without expecting even a smidgen of sympathy, the likes of sleeping in the middle of a roundabout staggered her.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

Secrets aren't the same as lying,' Vaughn commented, because they both had the muddiest of ethics, which was an odd thing to have in common.

I don't have the prejudices many have today. I don't believe in a naturalist worldview. I don't base my thinking on prejudices or a worldview and do not believe in materialism- (From an interview as cited in the Book the Literature of Possibility by Tom Butler-Bowden).

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

These are the days when man has his hands on the sublime while he is up to his hips in the muck of madness.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

Now dare to be tragic, for you will be redeemed.' Friedrich Nietzsche                        Ah!

Ulysses, which was an extremely difficult book by James Joyce. Every single other child in the class, when asked what they would like to do more of, chose creative writing.

life, surely. And even doing that, the least wrong of

book of Revelation is written to shape a church surrounded by the swamping and creeping ways of Babylon.

hold it, then, as an axiom — or else I'd stop writing right now — that our calling is to follow Jesus in our context rather than to retrieve and re-create his context in our world. What

In Revelation we enter his incredible imagination and see what God wants his people to see.

The book of Revelation is for modern-day disciples who have eyes to see the power of the empire in our world and in our churches and in our lives and yours.

foreignness that gave him the ability to see the distinctiveness of America.

the consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.

Jesus is the gospel-shaped King. There is no other messianic story like the one Jesus told and lived.