When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

Living Life God's way is living the Beautiful Life.

Nothing can stop you from achieving your goals if you have a deep driving persistent desire.

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.

...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.