Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.

Good writers touch life often.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

Writers live in houses other people built.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

Writers move with grace in and out of many worlds.

Writers are the custodians of memory...

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything — I am being sympathetic, not satiric — for the very best reasons.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Writers turn dreams into print.

Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.