Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.