Flannery O'Connor Quotes
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women as any poor person might be. I don't know if social problems are only circular; perhaps other geometric metaphors might better describe the triangular effects of social vulnerability, political oppression, and racial disadvantage. I think you're right - we've got to focus on both analyses and solutions. And sometimes, an adequate analysis goes far along in suggesting a suitable solution.
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I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.
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I grew up on a tiny little island.
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Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.
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Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
