The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.
You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
I know people that have blacked out that I party with that dont do anything irresponsible. They just act drunk,. . . I dont think people should ever drink by themselves because they need to have friends around that can keep them in line in case they do blackout.
Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught. . . Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.