Caldwell Quotes

“He had rid my inherited house of a lustful ghost, opened my eyes to a concealed world of strange forces and arcane knowledge, and buggered me twice.”
― K.J. Charles, The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

“In writing Simon's stories, I have written myself out of my own life.”
― K.J. Charles, The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

“Collecting statistics at camp Zachary Taylor after the armistice [WW1 1918], I found that out of two hundred and fifty men from Kentucky and Tennessee, ninety were completely illiterate, several were actual imbeciles, two had syphilitic rheumatism; and any number had married at childhood ages, from twelve - the youngest - to seventeen. They had married girls from nine - the youngest - to fourteen. So I am ready to believe that the Faulkner and Caldwell depictions of ingrown sections of the country are based upon actual conditions....”
― Kay Boyle, Being geniuses together, 1920-1930