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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1b266ad | I know what the word means even when I'm not wearing my smart glasses. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 7b06e66 | I never wanted you to leave, but I didn't know how to ask you to stay. | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| 92bb07f | It was hard for me to come up with something on the fly, which is why I preferred, if at all possible, not to say anything at all for fear it wasn't the right thing. | communication mental-health social-anxiety | Tracey Garvis Graves | |
| 0878b0a | Life isn't easy for anyone. We all have challenges. We all face adversity. It's how we overcome it that makes us who we are. | Tracey Garvis Graves | ||
| 72275d8 | So what is it that you do, exactly?" "I specialize in penetration testing. Pentesting for short. I'm incredibly good at it." "I've never heard of that. That sounds made up." | Tracey Garvis-Graves | ||
| e016e38 | Ben gelecegi hep yiginlar halinde 'bugun' olmayi bekleyen yarinlardan olusmus diye gorurum. | Trevanian | ||
| 12c3a31 | There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 55ddc3f | I don't know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise Blood but I am often embarrassed to find that I read the sources after I had written the book. I have been exposed to Wordsworth's "Intimation" ode but that is all I can say about it. I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in. The Oedipus business comes nearer home. Of course.. | wise-blood | Flannery O'Connor | |
| ebae6f8 | The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election. | election humour school | Flannery O'Connor | |
| edb722d | Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Savior at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up. Buford had co.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 70cb71c | She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 7e72cac | Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy and her part in it. It was not that she had ever forced her way on him. That had never been necessary. Her way had simply been the air he breathed and when at last he had found other air, he couldn't survive in it. He felt that even if she didn't understand at once, the letter would leave her with an enduring chill a.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| b1104b0 | Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| e8da501 | He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 8a389a7 | Julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who drank and screamed at him. He walked along, saturated in depression, as if in the midst of his martyrdom he had lost his faith. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 4fa9759 | The old woman's three mountains were black against the dark blue sky and were visited off and on by various planets and by the moon after it had left the chickens. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 934774a | He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that man's wife's health and how his children were. He said he had a book that he kept the names of his customers' families and what was wrong with them. A man's wife had cancer, he put her name down in the book and wrote 'cancer' after it and inquired about her every time he went to that man's hardware store until she died; then he scratched out the word 'cancer' and wrote 'de.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 31d72a8 | Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can .. | how-to-write-fiction novel writers writers-on-writing writing writing-quotes | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 6187560 | 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. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| c805b7c | It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing. I | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 98f1810 | The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. | southern-fiction southern-literature southern-writers writers | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 5b1a2fe | He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence. | grace human-nature redemption writing | Flannery O'Connor | |
| de5a5d9 | Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelist are probably never balanced for the writer until the Church becomes so much a part of his personality that he can forget about her--in the same sense that when he writes, he forgets about himself. | christian-writers faith fiction-writing writing writing-fiction | Flannery O'Connor | |
| a79aeb0 | I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but also there can be no reason to assume that the result of doing it in these times will give us the balanced picture it gave in Dante's. Dante lived in the thirteenth century, when that balance was achieved by the faith of his age. We live now in an.. | novel-writing perception structure writing-craft | Flannery O'Connor | |
| e08fe88 | She didn't like to admit it about her own kin, least about her own brother, but there he was--good for absolutely nothing. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 283fd2c | The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care. | thoroughness work-ethic | Flannery O'Connor | |
| bad7198 | I have heard people say that the short story was one of the most difficult literary forms, and I've always tried to decide why people feel this way about what seems to me to be one of the most natural and fundamental ways of human expression. After all, you begin to hear and tell stories when you're a child, and there doesn't seem to be anything very complicated about it. I suspect that most of you have been telling stories all your lives, .. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 7d52b85 | The thing for you to do is write something with a delayed reaction like those capsules that take an hour to melt in your stomach. In this way, it could be performed on Monday and not make them vomit until Wednesday, by which time they would not be sure who was to blame. This is the principle I operate under and I find it works very well. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 22e2475 | There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 83fad86 | Listen, lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now." His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had b.. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 16d7f6d | Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. | writers-on-writing writing writing-style | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 2632e8b | I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you have it in the first place, you can develop it; if you don't have it, you might as well forget it. But I have found that people who don't have it are frequently the ones hell-bent on writing stories. I'm sure anyway that they are the ones who .. | how-to-write how-to-write-fiction talent technique writers writers-on-writing writing writing-books writing-class writing-fiction writing-process writing-skills writing-talent | Flannery O'Connor | |
| ba6bbee | He kept on digging but the grave did not get any deeper. "The dead are poor," he said in the voice of the stranger. You can't be any poorer than dead." | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 503f775 | Flannery O'Connor once told a young friend to "push as hard as the age that pushes against you." | Tish Harrison Warren | ||
| d8b4b3a | Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer? | Lawrence Block | ||
| a661531 | They were galloping...Bare level plain had taken the place of the scrub and they'd been cantering briskly, the foals prancing delightedly ahead, when suddenly the dog was a shoulder-shrugging streaking fleece, and as their mares almost imperceptibly fell into the long untrammelled undulating strides, Hugh felt the sense of change, the keen elemental pleasure one experienced too on board a ship which, leaving the choppy waters of the estuary.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 93f7824 | Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days, it'd die of remorse on the third-- | remorse | Malcolm Lowry | |
| a7cc98b | Haven't you got any tenderness or love left for me at all?" Yvonne asked suddenly, almost piteously, turning round on him, and he thought: Yes, I do love you, I have all the love in the world left for you, only that love seems so far away from me and so strange too, for it is as though I could almost hear it, a droning or a weeping, but far, far away, and a sad lost sound, it might be either approaching or receding, I can't tell which. "Don.. | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| c8b0c6f | All of them, you see, misfits, all good for nothing, cowards, baboons, meek wolves, parasites, every man jack of them, people afraid to face their own responsibilities, fight their own fight, ready to go anywhere, as Tolstoy well perceived-- | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 409609a | In fact, all known societies above the very primitive level have been slave societies--even many of the Northwest American Indian tribes had slaves long before Columbus's voyage.46 Amid this universal slavery, only one civilization ever rejected human bondage: Christendom. And it did it twice! | Rodney Stark | ||
| d5822f3 | No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives--not only, or even primarily, because of its advanced technology but because of its fundamental commitment to freedom, reason, and human dignity. | Rodney Stark | ||
| bc9e99d | No doubt it was "unenlightened" of the crusaders to have been typical medieval warriors, but it seems even more unenlightened to anachronistically impose the Geneva Conventions on the crusaders while pretending that their Islamic opponents were innocent victims." | Rodney Stark | ||
| c56fee0 | current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and post-World War II creation of the state of Israel. | Rodney Stark | ||
| 6048a35 | Secrets are such hard things to manage whwn you're not the only one who knows. | Mel Odom |