5 Quotes & Sayings By Holly Ordway

Holly Ordway is a lifelong writer, editor and speaker. Her first novel "The Last Summer" was published in 2003 and won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best First Novel, as well as the prestigious RITA Award for Best Series Romance. She has also won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice award for Best Ghostwriter, and her first non-fiction book, "Setting Your Ghostwriter Free: How to Stop A Ghostwriter From Stealing Your Work", has been on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists since its release in 2008. Her second non-fiction book, "How to Write a Fearless Query Letter that Sells Your Book" was released in 2012 Read more

Holly is a frequent guest on local, national and international radio programs as well as a popular blogger who writes regularly for Publishers Weekly. In 2017 she joined Penguin Random House as an independent consultant.

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Human experience always contains both pain and joy. One of the reasons we can be confident that Christianity is actually true is it allows us to make sense of both aspects of the world. Of both beauty and pain. Holly Ordway
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You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world. Holly Ordway
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If we, who are finite, contingent, created beings, have got God completely figured out, it makes it seem likely that we invented him... If I am ever completely satisfied with my understanding of who God is and how he operates in the world, I am in danger of ceasing to seek Him. Holly Ordway
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Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine. Holly Ordway