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Writer Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and…
- 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 a few others,…
- 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,…
- It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells…
- The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery;…
- Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
- There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners…
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
- I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
- The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
- It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned…
- The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
- The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
- In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
- There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of…
- I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply…
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