I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
The meaning of the story is the story.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.