A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it