I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.