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

Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.