The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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 Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.