Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

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 looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.