Occupation: Writer Birth: March 25, 1925 Death: August 3, 1964
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime..
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul..
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..
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wa….
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts..
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story….
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better..
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
A God you understood would be less than yourself..
In yourself right now is all the place you've got..
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil..
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage ….
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 selle….
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it..
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross..
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of s….
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say..
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful..
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own..
You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd..
Unadaptability is often a virtue..