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

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

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

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.

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

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.