American - Author | September 21, 1941 -
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
Fannie Flagg
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
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In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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