Quotes by O'Connor, Flannery

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the m >>

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. >>

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. M >>

Quotations about Fiction

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insi >>

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. >>

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not >>

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.

O'Connor, Flannery