Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Flannery O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

Topics

BestI AmWritingBecauseWriterAm

I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I am free, when I am fluent, when I am unimaginable, that I start to feel like somewhere out there is the decolonized love for me, somewhere out there, there is a love that doesn't let any of us be so lonely.

Jenny Zhang

LoveMyselfI AmMeStartFree

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.

John Edgar Wideman

FamilyPrideChurchRememberGossip

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Andrea Mitchell

SchoolWayElementary SchoolKids

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

Melissa Etheridge

HealthResponsibilityStrongOpinions

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

John Madden

BestSchoolWinHigh SchoolThought

I'm looking forward to having one of those moments that will be immortal.

Jeff Hardy

Looking ForwardLookingForwardWill

I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.

Soundarya

MotherCookingMeKitchenBookBad

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

Sturgill Simpson

LifeMusicLooking BackLookingSelf

I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.

Ritika Singh

CharacterStoryDoneBecauseVery

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

ArtistPersonSeriousSeriouslyTake

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Dorothy Hamill

GoldWinChampionSayDeserveBeen

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Bret Stephens

FatherPoliticalHeroesRoosevelt

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