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

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.