"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."