Flannery O'Connor Quotes
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
Quotes to Explore
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
