Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

Hardships make or break people.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

After all, tomorrow is another day!

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.