Flannery O'Connor Quotes

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

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I have written ever since I knew mechanically how to do it.

I like being a writer.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

I love to write.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.