Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.
What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me. . . the most dreadful thing.
I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.
Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.
My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.