I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.