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Writers Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a…
- Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because…
- Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize…
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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