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Ideas Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- 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…
- It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
- Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
- Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
- Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
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