Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
I'm a writer first and an editor second. . . or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace
When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.