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You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
— Darrell Royal
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
— Flannery O'Connor
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
— Flannery O'Connor
![Flannery O'connor Writing Quotes By Sherman L. Sergel: TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/flannery-oconnor-writing-quotes-by-sherman-l-sergel-995548.jpg "Flannery O'connor Writing Quotes By Sherman L. Sergel: TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob.")
TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English!ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English. — Sherman L. Sergel
Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.
— Flannery O'Connor
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
— Flannery O'Connor
The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.
— Flannery O'Connor
If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
— Flannery O'Connor
What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.
— Flannery O'Connor
Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
— Flannery O'Connor
I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
— Flannery O'Connor
Fiction writing is very seldom a matter of saying things; it is a matter of showing things. However,
— Flannery O'Connor
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
— Flannery O'Connor
Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
— Flannery O'Connor
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.
— Flannery O'Connor
Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.
— Alyssa Brugman
Yes, it will hurt for some time. Things have to hurt before they can heal. That is the way of life.
— Sherry D. Ficklin
Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.
— Flannery O'Connor
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
— Flannery O'Connor
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
— Flannery O'Connor
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
— Flannery O'Connor
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
— Vernon Howard
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
— Flannery O'Connor
Towns were the nursery of freedom.
— Lord Acton
You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.
— Flannery O'Connor
![Flannery O'connor Writing Quotes By Flannery O'Connor: [Writing about her address to a ladies club]:](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/flannery-oconnor-writing-quotes-by-flannery-oconnor-893486.jpg "Flannery O'connor Writing Quotes By Flannery O'Connor: [Writing about her address to a ladies club]:")
[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in Hell if they didn't quit reading trash.
— Flannery O'Connor
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
— Errol Flynn
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
— Flannery O'Connor
Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
— Flannery O'Connor
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
— Flannery O'Connor
