...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows awayOf course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.