Flannery O'Connor Quotes
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
-
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
-
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
-
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
-
We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
-
One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
-
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
-
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
-
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
-
I love books.
-
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
-
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
-
I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
-
Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
-
I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
-
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
-
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
-
It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
-
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
-
But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
-
If I have a day off I will play golf.
-
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
-
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
-
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
