Richard Paul Evans
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.Collection: Romantic
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.Collection: Imagination
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.Collection: Courage
Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.Collection: Power
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.
I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.'
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
I'm a humble guy, okay?
I have Tourettes syndrome.
I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.Collection: Inspirational
such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hourCollection: Pain
The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.Collection: Journey
Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.Collection: Eye
The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.Collection: Writing
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.Collection: Beautiful
Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.Collection: Forgiveness
So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.Collection: Pain
There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their livesCollection: Abundance
To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.Collection: Feet
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.Collection: Beautiful
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.Collection: Dream
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.Collection: Challenges
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.Collection: Ocean
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.Collection: Inspiring
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.Collection: Appreciate Beauty
Regret is the most tiresome of companions.Collection: Regret
But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.Collection: Love Is
It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.Collection: Love
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.Collection: Memories
There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.Collection: Tests
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.Collection: Lasts
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.Collection: Stars
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.Collection: Two
Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.Collection: Blessing
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.Collection: Dwelling
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.Collection: Done
Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.Collection: Cures
Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.Collection: Humanity
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?Collection: Followers
Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.Collection: Blessing