"It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Get Away Quotes

“Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.”
“There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.”

Source : Interview with Jim Ladd, queenarchives.com. 1977.
“I'm a people's man - only the people matter.”
“Many parts of a pine tree are edible.”
“The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just 8 of these prophecies show the chance that someone could have fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 10 (to the 17th power), or 1 in 100 quadrillion.”
“One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to handle. One who has undergone long years of physical pain and mental agony to learn one punch, one kick, should be able to face any task, no matter how difficult, and carry it through to the end. A person like this can truly be said to have learned karate.”

Source : Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.47, Kodansha International
“In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.”
“Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.”

You may also like:

Carson McCullers
Film writer
Cormac McCarthy
Novelist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Eudora Welty
Author
John Updike
Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Katherine Anne Porter
Journalist
Walker Percy
Author
William Faulkner
Writer