Beware of a man with manners.
All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.
One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.