#writer

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. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bad #bad manners #because #better #condition

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#about #cannot #choose #live #make

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attention #does #his #never #nothing

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

— Flannery O'Connor

#because #best #i #i am #i do

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#eternity #find #his #location #meet

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#book #business #few #god #hands

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#different #different colors #four #make #types

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #between #black #books #communion

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#characters #great #human #human behaviour #root