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Flannery O'Connor

"You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction."

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"You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction."

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Donna Grant

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

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Donna Grant

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

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Donna Grant

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

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Donna Grant

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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Donna Grant

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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Donna Grant

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

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Donna Grant

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

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Donna Grant

"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."

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"A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."

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

Time

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Flannery O'Connor
"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Old

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Flannery O'Connor
"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

Experience

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

Life

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

Will

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Flannery O'Connor
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

Writer

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Flannery O'Connor
"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

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Flannery O'Connor
"Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka."

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Flannery O'Connor
"I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing."

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Flannery O'Connor
"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."

Literature

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