Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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