Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

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.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.