It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
From Flannery O'Connor
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
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 happily.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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 a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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.
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