It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

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

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.

The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.