Quotes About Author

To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.

Early in 1955 Flannery completed work on her second book, a collection of these stories which she entitled A Good Man Is Hard to Find. In January we sent it to press, having set publication for June. I remember our amusement at Evelyn Waugh's reaction to the advance proofs we sent him: "If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable.

At his desk, pen in hand, none was more articulate than Thomas. As soon as he found himself shut into the car with Sarah Ham, terror seized his tongue.

Flannery O'Connor considered herself "a very innocent speller." Spelling has therefore been corrected in this transcription of A Prayer Journal, so that the reader is not distracted.

Axiom : hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois , the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone , that is to say the literary men , who are the people, or to say it better : the tradition of humanity.

The scandalous "word of the cross" is God's own Word. The link between scandal and God is in itself irreligious; this is another aspect of the uniqueness of the Christian message.

It is the living significance of the death of Jesus, not the factual details concerning it as a historical event, that matters.

Oh villain! Thou art condemned into everlasting redemption. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

The New Testament is from beginning to end a living witness to the apostolic preaching. The cross was meant to be preached.

I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of actors and famous people.

But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.

I was a big Steelers fan.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

I've always been a big fan of political and social satire.

I'm a big fan of the Kyrie shoe.

Disney definitely sets up a fan base for you.

I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.

We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.

We know there is a very powerful fan base for Liverpool in Asia. We are not embarrassed to say we want to exploit that.

I've been talking about trying to do fantasy wrestling for years. It's going to be really, really exciting as we build our fan base.

We knew we had a big fan base over there in the U.K. and we were excited to get over there.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.