"Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time."
- Roman Payne
"There is one myth about writers that I have always felt was particularly pernicious and untruthful—the myth of the "lonely writer," the myth that writing is a lonely occupation, involving much sufferi..."
- Flannery O'Connor
"The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love."