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

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.