Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. – 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
I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other’s lives. – 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
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for. – 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 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
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
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
