If something is successful with the audience, it’s automatically suspect; the reverse — Carlisle Floyd
You can’t possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you’re doomed. — Carlisle Floyd
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly — Carlisle Floyd
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. — Carlisle Floyd