There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood – he had established himself at the heart of it. Everyday he looked at the heart of it; every day; he was...
The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.
The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.
Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.
My mamma and I have interesting literary discussions like the following which took place over some Modern Library books that I had just ordered: SHE: Mobby Dick. I’ve always heard about that. ME: Mow-...
Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh
Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the rest of them, ‘the truth don’t matter to you. If Jesus had redeemed you, wha...
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not pretend to do otherwise.
In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story.
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stay's that way. Ask me about that church and I'll tell you it's the church that the blood of...
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, 'Turn off th...
What they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.
Has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this, and I am gratified to be able to say it. The book was written with zest and, if possible, it sh...
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything...
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the driver’s seat, sitting very erect. He had an expression of serious modesty on his face as...
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about...