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Something Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.…
- Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it…
- I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,…
- I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent…
- There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be…
- A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see…
- A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.…
- There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be…
- He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the…
- Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning…
- A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will…
- The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you…
- Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
- I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes…
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