Walker Percy Quotes About Writing
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.
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But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
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