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Crafts Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people…
- I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,…
- Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three…
- The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and…
- There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of…
More Crafts Quotes
- It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — Honore de Balzac
- A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict
- The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto di Bondone
- The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. — Elizabeth Bowen
- Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. — Stephen King
- We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged… — Barack Obama