38 ratings (4.13 avg)
9 reviews

Michael Self

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/project_prolix

Michael’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (78)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (40)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

continuous-re-read‎ (1)
re-readable‎ (1)

read-all-the-way-through-but-meh‎ (1)
had-to-put-it-down‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Michael’s Quotes

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

tags: humor, wit

1138 likes

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

241 likes

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing

713 likes

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: grotesque, southern-writing

193 likes

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

2050 likes

More of Michael’s quotes…