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

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.