Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

Love with your heart not with your mind, mind is judgmental but heart is kind.

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Kick your shoes off, kickem off

Words of the world are the life of the world.