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

O'Connor, Flannery on Excellence
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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."

O'Connor, Flannery on Fiction
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"There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end."

O'Connor, Flannery on Literature
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"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 to be a condition that produces writers."

O'Connor, Flannery on Manners
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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."

O'Connor, Flannery on Writers and Writing
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