I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

I write to discover what I know.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.