My favorite book is ‘Redeeming Love.’ It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I’ve spent writing anything. Francine Rivers Read Quote
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. Francine Rivers Read Quote
I had been raised in the church, but I wasn’t a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge. Francine Rivers Read Quote
I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I’m struggling. Francine Rivers Read Quote
Like everyone else, there are days when I don’t want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else. Francine Rivers Read Quote
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. Francine Rivers Read Quote
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. Francine Rivers Read Quote
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. Francine Rivers Read Quote
