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.

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 have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.

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

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.