I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.