Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

Try to be better than yourself.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.