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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... →
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry... →
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it... →
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... →
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.