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

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.