Susan Howatch

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light…

— Susan Howatch

“Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded…

— Susan Howatch

I can't complain about the way I've been marketed because it's been so successful.

— Susan Howatch

“One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.”

— Susan Howatch

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the…

— Susan Howatch

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

— Susan Howatch

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

— Susan Howatch

“No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil…

— Susan Howatch

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a…

— Susan Howatch

“No demon can withstand the power of Christ,” said my father, repeating the words he had used long ago, and what he…

— Susan Howatch

“The gifts of the Spirit can be recognized by their fruits.”

— Susan Howatch

“don’t play bridge but I’m going to learn. The”

— Susan Howatch

“The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter…

— Susan Howatch

“So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of…

— Susan Howatch

“My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.”

— Susan Howatch

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of…

— Susan Howatch

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings…

— Susan Howatch

“You have here a parable, the subject of which might be called The Persistence of Truth … Whatever fears, adversities, or doubts assail you,…

— Susan Howatch

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling…

— Susan Howatch

“What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral…

— Susan Howatch

“...never think God doesn't listen when you tell Him what you want.”

— Susan Howatch

“Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.”

— Susan Howatch

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage…

— Susan Howatch

“Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as…

— Susan Howatch

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and…

— Susan Howatch