For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Quote by Wilfrid Sheed

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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only...

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it...

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it...

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the...

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the...

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one...

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's...

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,...

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,...

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the...

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many...

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write...

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...