When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

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.