Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

i am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears.

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

The most complicated skill is to be simple. Even if you tried in this world you will wage war with yourself.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?

My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.