I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.
“If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.”
“In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.”