Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

I'm quite good at not writing.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.