I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.

It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.