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...

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.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Knowledge without understanding is useless.