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.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

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

We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.