I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. I can be received gladl… - Anne Lamott

I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Help for the sick and hungry,
home for the homeless folk,
peace in the world forever,
this is my prayer, O Lord. Amen.

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.

Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people you are getting to know better every day, something is bound to happen.