I have Tourettes syndrome.

- Richard Paul Evans

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.

- Richard Paul Evans

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

- 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.

- Richard Paul Evans

I'm a humble guy, okay?

- Richard Paul Evans

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.'

- Richard Paul Evans

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.

- Richard Paul Evans

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.

- Richard Paul Evans

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

- Richard Paul Evans

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

- Richard Paul Evans

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

- Richard Paul Evans

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

- Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

- Richard Paul Evans

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

- Richard Paul Evans

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.

- Richard Paul Evans

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

- Richard Paul Evans

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

- Richard Paul Evans

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

- Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

- Richard Paul Evans