Quotes

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

On success: It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

On writing: When I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it's because we are still able to recognize one.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it's going to be called realistic.