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

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

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

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

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962