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Write Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
- There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a…
- 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.…
- I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by…
- Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write…
- People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
- I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take…
- I write to discover what I know.
- ...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see…
- I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
- People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at…
- 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…
- So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
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- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo