I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. -Flannery O'Connor

 

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.


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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures. -Flannery O'Connor
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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.

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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. -Flannery O'Connor
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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