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

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

The meaning of the story is the story.