Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image ““Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.”” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you are not familiar with the age in which we live, read my stories. If you cannot endure my stories, it means that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A story can take children places they've never been before and tell them about things that happened to folks even older than their elders.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.” — Vishwas Mudagal Copy Share Image
“While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.” — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“I am not disappointed by my old age. There are still stories to tell, paths to walk, and fire within that refuses to diminish.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“In truth, age is a writer’s ally. The greater the experience, the more we have to say. More time to learn important truths, to… — Randy Kraft Copy Share Image
“Heroes may not live long in years, but they live forever in the stories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
