If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.