I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

Professional Southerners sicken me.