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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that…

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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way…
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try…
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object…
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I…
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face…
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the…

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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. — Epictetus
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