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Stories 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…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- 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…
- I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where…
- 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 find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
- All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of…
- 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…
- 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…
- When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour…
- There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not…
- Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
- So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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