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“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.”
― Flannery O'Conner

“There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.”
― Flannery O'Connor