It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought. James Agee I have been writing a long time and have learned some things, not only from my own long hard work, but from a writing class I had for three years. The Southerner, who isn't convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.
Ghosts can be very fierce and instructive.
They cast strange shadows, particularly in our literature. In any case, it is when the freak can be sensed as a figure for our essential displacement that he attains some depth in literature. Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. So this is love. This is winter in whimtown.