Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

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

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.