The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth…”

“Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, exa…”

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the nor…”

“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.”