I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.