There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
~ Flannery O'connor
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.