"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

Attention, Nothing, Writer

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

Exlpore more Attention quotes

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Attention, Dress, Right

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Attention, Wisdom, Truth, Today, Power

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Attention, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Attention, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Attention,

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Attention, Focus, Truth, Power, Self

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Attention, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Henry Miller, American Author

Attention, World

"They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models."

Bob Weir, American Musician

Attention,

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Attention, Loneliness, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."

Creativity

"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

Time

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Old

"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

Experience

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

Life

"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

Will

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

Writer

"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

Philosophy

"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."

Philosophy

"Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka."

Humor