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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many... →
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... →
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that... →
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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