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.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

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.

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

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.