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...

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others...

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others...

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down...

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down...

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;...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we...

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of...

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the...

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the...

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

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...

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or...

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or...

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most...

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a...