In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.