"I believe that the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. ("The Teaching of Literature")"

"The main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in real life. ("Catholic Novelists and the…"

"I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression…"

"There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands …"

"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find t…"

"Mrs. May's bedroom window was low and faced on the east and the bull, silvered in the moonlight, stood under it, his …"

"Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his gr…"

"...to know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other w…"

"stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; bu…"

"A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what …"