When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.