American - Author | March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964
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 we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and 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 what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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