Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems…

Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler...

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler...

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big...

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big...

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is...

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest;...

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest;...

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business...

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part...

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a...

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own...