If we forget our past, the speaker was saying, we won’t remember our future and it will be as well for we won’t have one. The General heard some of these words gradually. He had forgotten history and...
I guess a good man IS hard to find!
Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end...
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn’t try to write fiction.
Time goes forward, it don’t go backward and unless you take what’s offered you, you’ll find yourself out in the cold pitch black and just how far do you think you’ll get?
Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have...
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vis...
Vi är allesammans fördömda, sa hon, men somliga av oss har tagit av oss ögonbindlarna och sett att inget finns att se. Det är en slags frälsning.
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.
Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven.
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Poetry is always dependent on realism, that you have to be a realist or you can’t be a poet. Mrs.
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.