"When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Here And There Quotes #Attention Quotes

“...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately.”
“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”
“I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.”

Source : "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.
“I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.”
“Dear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist...it's just one kiss.”
“The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.”
“I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.”
“When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.”

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