I'm too much of a big kid.
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.
I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.
I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.
Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.
I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat.
To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
. . . we almost never speak I don't feel welcome anymore baby what happened, please tell me?
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.