286 Quotes by Francine Rivers

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.