Quotes from Randy Ingermanson

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

People would question anything having to do with God, but they wouldn't question their own questions. They would challenge the authority of a theologian, but they wouldn't challenge the authority of their buddy who claimed he had read a book that disproved the Bible.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

Rivka believed that HaShem was both all-good and all-powerful—so good that he created people, so powerful that he gave them free will. And that made evil possible. If men could not choose evil, then they were not free. Therefore, the existence of evil was proof of HaShem's great power to create those who could choose to oppose him.

Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.

It was much easier to obey God when he said, "Fight!" or "Argue!" or "Sacrifice yourself!" But when he said, "Wait!"—that made things hard. Ari was good at that sort of thing. He

Please, you will do it anyway. When you hear to do a merciful thing, that is always at least a whisper from the heart of HaShem. Obedience will strengthen the ears of your spirit.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.