I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.