Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'Connor
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
Aaron Sorkin
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips
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I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
Nancy Kress
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A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.
Ansen Dibell
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Lana Del Rey
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Karl Marx
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'Connor
